Genus Yangia
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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").
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
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.