Genus Piscinibacterium
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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").
Piscinibacterium Sheu et al. 2016, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Piscinibacterium candidicorallinum Sheu et al. 2016.
Etymology: L. fem. n. piscina, a pond; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a small rod; N.L. neut. n. Piscinibacterium, a rod from a pond.
Valid publication: SHEU, S. Y., LI, Y. S. and CHEN, W. M. 2016. Piscinibacterium candidicorallinum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the order Burkholderiales isolated from a fish pond. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 5260-5267.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Piscinibacterium candidicorallinum Sheu et al. 2016, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) LYH-15=BCRC 80969=LMG 29480=KCTC 52168.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: LT158233.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: L. adj. candidus, light-coloured; L. adj. corallinus, coral-coloured; N.L. n. adj. candidicorallinum light-coral coloured.
Source: Environmental - freshwater.
Valid publication: SHEU, S. Y., LI, Y. S. and CHEN, W. M. 2016. Piscinibacterium candidicorallinum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the order Burkholderiales isolated from a fish pond. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 5260-5267.
Original article in IJSEM Online