Genus Planktotalea
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 3
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Planktotalea Hahnke et al. 2012, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Planktotalea frisia Hahnke et al. 2012.
Etymology: Gr. adj. planktos, roaming, wandering; L. fem. n. talea, a slender staff, a rod; N.L. fem. n. Planktotalea, a planktonic/roaming rod.
Valid publication: HAHNKE (S.), TINDALL (B.J.), SCHUMANN (P.), SPERLING (M.), BRINKHOFF (T.) and SIMON (M.): Planktotalea frisia gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the southern North Sea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2012, 62, 1619-1624.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Planktotalea arctica Baek et al. 2017, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) IMCC9565=KACC 18009=NBRC 110393.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KJ160495.
Whole-genome sequence accession no.: MUHR00000000.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. arctica, of the Arctic, the environment from where the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: BAEK, K., CHOI, A., LEE, Y. M., LEE, H. K. and CHO, J. C. 2017. Planktotalea arctica sp. nov., isolated from Arctic seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 3501-3505.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Planktotalea frisia Hahnke et al. 2012, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) SH6-1 = DSM 23709 = LMG 25294.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: FJ882052.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. frisia, Frisian, pertaining to Frisia, a coastal region along the south-eastern corner of the North Sea, i.e. the German Bight, from where the organism was obtained.
Valid publication: HAHNKE (S.), TINDALL (B.J.), SCHUMANN (P.), SPERLING (M.), BRINKHOFF (T.) and SIMON (M.): Planktotalea frisia gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the southern North Sea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2012, 62, 1619-1624.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: The specific epithet frisia is a neo-Latin feminine adjective, not a Latin feminine adjective as cited in the paper by Hahnke et al. 2012.
Planktotalea lamellibrachiae Nogi et al. 2017, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) JAM 119=JCM 31859=DSM 104669.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: LC200412.
Etymology: N.L. gen. n. lamellibrachiae, of the species of the tubeworm (Lamellibrachia satsuma) from which the bacterium was isolated.
Source: Environmental - marine.
Valid publication: NOGI, Y., NISHI, S. and KOYAMA, S. 2017. Planktotalea lamellibrachiae sp. nov., isolated from a marine organism in Kagoshima Bay, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 4785-4789.
Original article in IJSEM Online