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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Aquicoccus

Name: Aquicoccus Feng et al. 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.qui.coc’cus. L. fem. n. aqua, water; N.L. masc. n. coccus, grain; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, a berry; N.L. masc. n. Aquicoccus, a coccus-shaped bacterium from the water

Gender: masculine (stem: Aquicocc-)

Type species: Aquicoccus porphyridii Feng et al. 2018

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Feng T, Kim KH, Jeong SE, Kim W, Jeon CO. Aquicoccus porphyridii gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a small marine red alga, Porphyridium marinum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:283-288.

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: 520340
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