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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Lunatimonas

Name: Lunatimonas Srinivas et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Lu.na.ti’mo.nas. L. masc. adj. lunatus, half-moon shaped; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Lunatimonas, a half-moon shaped unit (bacterium)

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Lunatimonad-), lu-na-TI-mo-nas

Type species: Lunatimonas lonarensis Srinivas et al. 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Srinivas TN, Aditya S, Bhumika V, Kumar PA. Lunatimonas lonarensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkaline bacterium of the family Cyclobacteriaceae with nitrate reducing activity. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:10-16. 🇮🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 163. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1105-1111.

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: Srinivas TN, Aditya S, Bhumika V, Kumar PA. Lunatimonas lonarensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloalkaline bacterium of the family Cyclobacteriaceae with nitrate reducing activity. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:10-16. 🇮🇳

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Record number: 518712
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