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Genus Leptolinea

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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

 

Leptolinea Yamada et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Leptolinea tardivitalis Yamada et al. 2006.
Etymology: Gr. adj. leptos, fine; L. fem. n. linea, line; N.L. fem. n. Leptolinea, fine, line-shaped organism.
Valid publication: YAMADA (T.), SEKIGUCHI (Y.), HANADA (S.), IMACHI (H.), OHASHI (A.), HARADA (H.) and KAMAGATA (Y.): Anaerolinea thermolimosa sp. nov., Levilinea saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Leptolinea tardivitalis gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous anaerobes, and description of the new classes Anaerolineae classis nov. and Caldilineae classis nov. in the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1331-1340.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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Leptolinea tardivitalis Yamada et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) YMTK-2 = DSM 16556 = JCM 12579.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB109438.
Etymology: L. adj. tardus, slow; L. fem. adj. vitalis, vital, alive; N.L. fem. adj. tardivitalis, having a slow lifestyle.
Valid publication: YAMADA (T.), SEKIGUCHI (Y.), HANADA (S.), IMACHI (H.), OHASHI (A.), HARADA (H.) and KAMAGATA (Y.): Anaerolinea thermolimosa sp. nov., Levilinea saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Leptolinea tardivitalis gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous anaerobes, and description of the new classes Anaerolineae classis nov. and Caldilineae classis nov. in the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1331-1340.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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