Genus Wautersiella
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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").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Wautersiella Kämpfer et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Wautersiella falsenii Kämpfer et al. 2006.
Etymology: N.L. fem. dim. n. Wautersiella, named after Georges Wauters, a Belgian microbiologist, who first recognized this group of organisms as a separate entity and to honour him for his lifelong contribution to bacterial taxonomy.
Valid publication: KÄMPFER (P.), AVESANI (V.), JANSSENS (M.), CHARLIER (J.), DE BAERE (T.) and VANEECHOUTTE (M.): Description of Wautersiella falsenii gen. nov., sp. nov., to accommodate clinical isolates phenotypically resembling members of the genera Chryseobacterium and Empedobacter. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 2323-2329.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Wautersiella falsenii Kämpfer et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) NF 993 = CCUG 51536 = CIP 108861.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AM084341.
Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. falsenii, of Falsen, to honour the contemporary Norwegian microbiologist, Enevold Falsen, for his lifelong interest in bacterial taxonomy and for his systematic characterization of bacteria at the CCUG, Göteborg, Sweden.
Valid publication: KÄMPFER (P.), AVESANI (V.), JANSSENS (M.), CHARLIER (J.), DE BAERE (T.) and VANEECHOUTTE (M.): Description of Wautersiella falsenii gen. nov., sp. nov., to accommodate clinical isolates phenotypically resembling members of the genera Chryseobacterium and Empedobacter. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 2323-2329.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Moheibacter Kämpfer et al. 2006 emend. Zhang et al. 2014.
Reference: ZHANG, R.-G., TAN, X., ZHAO, X.-M., DENG, J. and LV, J. 2014. Moheibacter sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from sediment, and emended descriptions of Empedobacter brevis, Wautersiella falsenii and Weeksella virosa. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 1481-1487.
Original article.
→ ¤ Empedobacter falsenii (Kämpfer et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2014, comb. nov.