Genus Prolixibacter
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 2
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Prolixibacter bellariivorans Holmes et al. 2007.
Etymology: L. adj. prolixus, long, extended; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Prolixibacter, a long rod.
Valid publication: HOLMES (D.E.), NEVIN (K.P.), WOODARD (T.L.), PEACOCK (A.D.) and LOVLEY (D.R.): Prolixibacter bellariivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting, psychrotolerant anaerobe of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from a marine-sediment fuel cell. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 701-707.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007 emend. Iino et al. 2015.
Reference: IINO, T., SAKAMOTO, M. and OHKUMA, M. 2015. Prolixibacter denitrificans sp. nov., an iron-corroding, facultatively aerobic, nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from crude oil, and emended descriptions of the genus Prolixibacter and Prolixibacter bellariivorans. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 2865-2869.
Original article.
Prolixibacter bellariivorans Holmes et al. 2007, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) F2 = ATCC BAA-1284 = JCM 13498.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AY918928.
Etymology: L. pl. n. bellaria, sweets, dessert; L. part. adj. vorans, devouring; N.L. part. adj. bellariivorans, sweet-devouring, consuming sweet things.
Valid publication: HOLMES (D.E.), NEVIN (K.P.), WOODARD (T.L.), PEACOCK (A.D.) and LOVLEY (D.R.): Prolixibacter bellariivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting, psychrotolerant anaerobe of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from a marine-sediment fuel cell. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 701-707.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Prolixibacter bellariivorans Holmes et al. 2007 emend. Iino et al. 2015.
Reference: IINO, T., SAKAMOTO, M. and OHKUMA, M. 2015. Prolixibacter denitrificans sp. nov., an iron-corroding, facultatively aerobic, nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from crude oil, and emended descriptions of the genus Prolixibacter and Prolixibacter bellariivorans. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 2865-2869.
Original article.
Prolixibacter denitrificans Iino et al. 2015, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) MIC1-1=JCM 18694=NBRC 102688=DSM 27267.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB986195.
Etymology: N.L. v. denitrifico, to denitrify; N.L. part. adj. denitrificans, denitrifying.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: IINO, T., SAKAMOTO, M. and OHKUMA, M. 2015. Prolixibacter denitrificans sp. nov., an iron-corroding, facultatively aerobic, nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from crude oil, and emended descriptions of the genus Prolixibacter and Prolixibacter bellariivorans. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 2865-2869.
Original article in IJSEM Online