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Genus Yangia

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").

 

Yangia Dai et al. 2006, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Yangia pacifica Dai et al. 2006.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Yangia, named after the Chinese microbiologist H.-F. Yang, who founded the research of environmental microbiology in the early 1960s in China.
Valid publication: DAI (X.), WANG (B.J.), YANG (Q.X.), JIAO (N.Z.) and LIU (S.J.): Yangia pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the Roseobacter clade from coastal sediment of the East China Sea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 529-533.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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Yangia pacifica Dai et al. 2006, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) DX5-10 = CGMCC 1.3455 = JCM 12573.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AJ877265.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. pacifica, peacemaking, pacific, and by extension pertaining to the Pacific Ocean, the origin of the type strain.
Valid publication: DAI (X.), WANG (B.J.), YANG (Q.X.), JIAO (N.Z.) and LIU (S.J.): Yangia pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the Roseobacter clade from coastal sediment of the East China Sea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 529-533.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: The specific epithet pacifica is a Latin adjective, not a neo-Latin adjective as cited in the paper by Dai et al. 2006.

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