Genus Marinovum
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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").
Marinovum Martens et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Marinovum algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Martens et al. 2006.
Etymology: L. adj. marinus, of or belonging to the sea, marine; L. neut. n. ovum, an egg, an egg-shape, oval; N.L. neut. n. Marinovum, a marine egg-shaped bacterium.
Valid publication: MARTENS (T.), HEIDORN (T.), PUKALL (R.), SIMON (M.), TINDALL (B.J.) and BRINKHOFF (T.): Reclassification of Roseobacter gallaeciensis Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998 as Phaeobacter gallaeciensis gen. nov., comb. nov., description of Phaeobacter inhibens sp. nov., reclassification of Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1999 as Marinovum algicola gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Roseobacter, Ruegeria and Leisingera. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1293-1304.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Marinovum algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Martens et al. 2006, comb. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) FF3 = ATCC 51440= CIP 104267 = DSM 10251 = IAM 14591 = JCM 21266 = NBRC 16653.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: X78315.
Basonym: ¤ Roseobacter algicola Lafay et al. 1995.
Other synonym: ¤ Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1999.
Etymology: L. n. alga, alga; L. masc. suff. -cola (from L. masc. n. incola), an inhabitant; N.L. n. algicola, alga dweller.
Valid publication: MARTENS (T.), HEIDORN (T.), PUKALL (R.), SIMON (M.), TINDALL (B.J.) and BRINKHOFF (T.): Reclassification of Roseobacter gallaeciensis Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998 as Phaeobacter gallaeciensis gen. nov., comb. nov., description of Phaeobacter inhibens sp. nov., reclassification of Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1999 as Marinovum algicola gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Roseobacter, Ruegeria and Leisingera. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1293-1304.
Original article in IJSEM Online