Genus Vibrionimonas
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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").
Vibrionimonas Albert et al. 2014, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Vibrionimonas magnilacihabitans Albert et al. 2014.
Etymology: N.L. n. vibrio -onis, a bacterial genus name of bacteria possessing a curved rod shape (Vibrio); L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Vibrionimonas, a vibrio(-like) monad, referring to curved rod-shaped bacterium.
Reference: ALBERT, R. A., ZITOMER, D., DOLLHOPF, M., SCHAUER-GIMENEZ, A. E., STRUBLE, C., KING, M., SON, S., LANGER, S. and BUSSE, H.-J. 2014. Proposal of Vibrionimonas magnilacihabitans gen. nov., sp. nov., a curved Gram-stain-negative bacterium isolated from lake water. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 613-620..
Original article in IJSEM Online
Vibrionimonas magnilacihabitans Albert et al. 2014, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) MU-2=NRRL B-59231 = DSM 22423.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: FJ816610.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: N/A.
Etymology: L. adj. magnus, great; L. n. lacus, lake; L. masc. n. habitans, a dweller; N.L. masc. n. magnilacihabitans, great lake dweller, referring to the lake, Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes, from which the type species was first isolated.
Source: Environmental - freshwater.
Reference: ALBERT, R. A., ZITOMER, D., DOLLHOPF, M., SCHAUER-GIMENEZ, A. E., STRUBLE, C., KING, M., SON, S., LANGER, S. and BUSSE, H.-J. 2014. Proposal of Vibrionimonas magnilacihabitans gen. nov., sp. nov., a curved Gram-stain-negative bacterium isolated from lake water. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 613-620.
Original article in IJSEM Online