Genus Nitrospina
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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").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971, genus. (Type genus of the family ¤ Nitrospinaceae Garrity et al. 2006).
Type species: ¤ Nitrospina gracilis Watson and Waterbury 1971 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. n. nitras -atis, nitrate; N.L. pref. nitro-, pertaining to nitrate; L. fem. n. spina, thorn, spine; N.L. fem. n. Nitrospina, nitrate spine.
Approved Lists reference: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition).
Original publication: WATSON (S.W.) and WATERBURY (J.B.): Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp. Archiv fur Mikrobiologie, 1971, 77, 203-230.
Nitrospina gracilis Watson and Waterbury 1971, species. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) See the note below.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: not available.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. gracilis, thin, slender.
Approved Lists reference: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition).
Original publication: WATSON (S.W.) and WATERBURY (J.B.): Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp. Archiv fur Mikrobiologie, 1971, 77, 203-230.
Note: A strain of Nitrospina gracilis, the strain 3/211 (obtained from Biozentrum Klein Flottbek,University of Hamburg) is available. However, the designation of this strain as the type strain of Nitrospina gracilis is not published in the IJSB/IJSEM (see Rule 18f). The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the strain 3/211 is FR865038.