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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Malikia

Name: Malikia Spring et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ma.li’ki.a. N.L. fem. n. Malikia, named after Kuhrsheed A. Malik, for his contributions to our knowledge of the cultivation and taxonomy of hydrogen-oxidizing and polyhydroxyalkanoate-accumulating proteobacteria

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Maliki-), ma-LI-ki-a

Type species: Malikia granosa Spring et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Spring S, Wagner M, Schumann P, Kampfer P. Malikia granosa gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel polyhydroxyalkanoate- and polyphosphate-accumulating bacterium isolated from activated sludge, and reclassification of Pseudomonas spinosa as Malikia spinosa comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:621-629. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1399-1402.

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: Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991

Assigned by: Spring S, Wagner M, Schumann P, Kampfer P. Malikia granosa gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel polyhydroxyalkanoate- and polyphosphate-accumulating bacterium isolated from activated sludge, and reclassification of Pseudomonas spinosa as Malikia spinosa comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:621-629. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 515998
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