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Genus Saccharofermentans

Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow () only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).

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").

 

Saccharofermentans Chen et al. 2010, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Saccharofermentans acetigenes Chen et al. 2010.
Etymology: Gr. n. sakchâr, sugar; L. part. adj. fermentans, fermenting; N.L. neut. n. Saccharofermentans, sugar-fermenting.
Valid publication: CHEN (S.), NIU (L.) and ZHANG (Y.): Saccharofermentans acetigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from sludge treating brewery wastewater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 2735-2738.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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Saccharofermentans acetigenes Chen et al. 2010, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) P6 = AS 1.5064 = JCM 14006.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AY949857.
Etymology: L. n. acetum, vinegar; N.L. suff. -genes (from Gr. v. gennaô, to produce), producing; N.L. adj. acetigenes, vinegar- or acetic acid-producing.
Valid publication: CHEN (S.), NIU (L.) and ZHANG (Y.): Saccharofermentans acetigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from sludge treating brewery wastewater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 2735-2738.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: In the paper by Chen et al. 2010, the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain P6 is erroneously cited as AY 949857 (with a space after the letter J).

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