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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Falcatimonas

Name: Falcatimonas Watanabe et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fal.ca.ti’mo.nas. L. masc. adj. falcatus, sickle- or crescent-shaped; L. fem. n. monas, a unit; N.L. fem. n. Falcatimonas, a sickle-shaped unit

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Falcatimonad-), fal-ka-TI-mo-nas

Type species: Falcatimonas natans Watanabe et al. 2016

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Watanabe M, Kaku N, Ueki K, Ueki A. Falcatimonas natans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4639-4644. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:179-182.

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: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Assigned by: Watanabe M, Kaku N, Ueki K, Ueki A. Falcatimonas natans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4639-4644. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 519084
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