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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Aestuariicoccus

Name: Aestuariicoccus Feng et al. 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Aes.tu.a.ri.i.coc’cus. L. neut. n. aestuarium, mud flat; N.L. masc. n. coccus, a grain or berry; N.L. masc. n. Aestuariicoccus, a coccus-shaped bacterium from mud flat

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Aestuariicocc-), a͡es-tu-a-ri-i-KOK-kus

Type species: Aestuariicoccus marinus Feng et al. 2018

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Feng T, Jeong SE, Kim KH, Park HY, Jeon CO. Aestuariicoccus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sea-tidal flat sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:260-265. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:979-981.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 520339
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