Genus Limisphaera
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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").
Limisphaera Anders et al. 2015, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis Anders et al. 2015.
Etymology: L. n. limus, mud, sludge, silt; L. fem. n. sphaera, a ball, sphere, globe; N.L. fem. n. Limisphaera, a mud sphere.
Valid publication: ANDERS, H., POWER, J. F., MACKENZIE, A. D., LAGUTIN, K., VYSSOTSKI, M., HANSSEN, E., MOREAU, J. W. and STOTT, M. B. 2015. Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, pink-pigmented coccus isolated from subaqueous mud of a geothermal hotspring. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 1114-1121..
Original article in IJSEM Online
Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis Anders et al. 2015, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) NGM72.4=ICMP 20182=DSM 27329.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: HF947551.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. ngatamarikiensis, pertaining to the Ngatamariki geothermal features where the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: ANDERS, H., POWER, J. F., MACKENZIE, A. D., LAGUTIN, K., VYSSOTSKI, M., HANSSEN, E., MOREAU, J. W. and STOTT, M. B. 2015. Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, pink-pigmented coccus isolated from subaqueous mud of a geothermal hotspring. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 1114-1121.
Original article in IJSEM Online