Genus Nesiotobacter
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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").
Nesiotobacter Donachie et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Nesiotobacter exalbescens Donachie et al. 2006.
Etymology: Gr. adj. nesiotes, of an island, insular; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Nesiotobacter, rod from an island, in this case Laysan.
Valid publication: DONACHIE (S.P.), BOWMAN (J.P.) and ALAM (M.): Nesiotobacter exalbescens gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic alphaproteobacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 563-567.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Nesiotobacter exalbescens Donachie et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) LA33B = ATCC BAA-994 = CIP 108449.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AF513441.
Etymology: L. part. adj. exalbescens (from L. v. exalbesco), becoming white, growing white, referring to the fading colour of maturing colonies.
Valid publication: DONACHIE (S.P.), BOWMAN (J.P.) and ALAM (M.): Nesiotobacter exalbescens gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic alphaproteobacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 563-567.
Original article in IJSEM Online