Genus Nitrospirillum
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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").
Nitrospirillum Lin et al. 2015, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Nitrospirillum amazonense Lin et al. 2015.
Etymology: Gr. n. nitron, soda; L. neut. n. spirillum, spiral; N.L. neut. n. Nitrospirillum, soda spiral.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 165. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65 (2015), 2777-2783.
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Effective publication: LIN, S.-Y., HAMEED, A., SHEN, F.-T., LIU, Y.-C., HSU, Y.-H., SHAHINA, M., LAI, W.-A. and YOUNG, C.-C. 2014. Description of Niveispirillum fermenti gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a fermentor in Taiwan, transfer of Azospirillum irakense (1989) as Niveispirillum irakense comb. nov., and reclassification of Azospirillum amazonense (1983) as Nitrospirillum amazonense gen. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105, 1149-1162
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Nitrospirillum amazonense Lin et al. 2015, comb. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) Am14=ATCC 35119=BCRC 14279=DSM 2787.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: GU256437.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Basonym: ¤ Azospirillum amazonense Magalhães et al. 1984.
Etymology: N.L. neut. adj. amazonense, pertaining to the Amazon region of Brazil.
Source: Industrial.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 165. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65 (2015), 2777-2783.
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Effective publication: LIN, S.-Y., HAMEED, A., SHEN, F.-T., LIU, Y.-C., HSU, Y.-H., SHAHINA, M., LAI, W.-A. and YOUNG, C.-C. 2014. Description of Niveispirillum fermenti gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a fermentor in Taiwan, transfer of Azospirillum irakense (1989) as Niveispirillum irakense comb. nov., and reclassification of Azospirillum amazonense (1983) as Nitrospirillum amazonense gen. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 105, 1149-1162
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Nitrospirillum iridis Chung et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) YC6995=DSM 22198=KACC 13777.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: GU048666.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: L. gen. n. iridis, of Iris, isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Iris ensata var. spontanea (Makino) Nakai .
Source: Environmental - soil.
Valid publication: VALIDATION LIST no. 168. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66 (2016), 1603-1606.
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Effective publication: Chung, E. J., Park, T. S., Kim, K. H., Jeon, C. O., Lee, H.-I., Chang, W.-S., Aslam, Z. and Chung, Y. R. 2015. Erratum to: Nitrospirillum irinus sp. nov., a diazotrophic bacterium isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Iris and emended description of the genus Nitrospirillum Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 108, 1495-1496.
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