Genus Puia
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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").
Puia Lv et al. 2017, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Puia dinghuensis Lv et al. 2017.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Puia, genus named in honour of Zhe-long Pu, a well-known Chinese entomologist who was the founder and the first director of the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Sun Yat-sen University.
Valid publication: LV, Y. Y., GAO, Z. H., XIA, F., CHEN, M. H. and QIU, L. H. 2017. Puia dinghuensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 4639-4645.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Puia dinghuensis Lv et al. 2017, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 4GSH07=CGMCC 1.15448=LMG 29214.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KT805281.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. dinghuensis, referring to Dinghu Mountain, Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong Province, PR China, where the organism was first isolated.
Source: Environmental - soil.
Valid publication: LV, Y. Y., GAO, Z. H., XIA, F., CHEN, M. H. and QIU, L. H. 2017. Puia dinghuensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 4639-4645.
Original article in IJSEM Online