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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Fontibacter

Name: Fontibacter Kämpfer et al. 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fon.ti.bac’ter. L. masc. n. fons (gen. fontis), a spring; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Fontibacter, a rod isolated from a spring sample

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Fontibacter-), fon-ti-BAK-ter

Type species: Fontibacter flavus Kämpfer et al. 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Young CC, Chen WM, Rekha PD, Fallschissel K, Lodders N, Chou JH, Shen FT, Frischmann A, Busse HJ, et al. Fontibacter flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family 'Cyclobacteriaceae', isolated from a hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2066-2070. 🇮🇳

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2695-2696.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

Parent taxon: Cyclobacteriaceae Nedashkovskaya and Ludwig 2012

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Young CC, Chen WM, Rekha PD, Fallschissel K, Lodders N, Chou JH, Shen FT, Frischmann A, Busse HJ, et al. Fontibacter flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family 'Cyclobacteriaceae', isolated from a hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2066-2070. 🇮🇳

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Record number: 518017
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