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Genus Marinifaba
Name: Marinifaba Sui et al. 2025
Etymology: Ma.ri.ni’fa.ba. L. masc. adj. marinus, marine; L. fem. n. faba, a bean; N.L. fem. n. Marinifaba, a marine bean-shaped organism
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Marinifab-), ma-ri-NI-fa-ba
Type species: Marinifaba aquimaris Sui et al. 2025
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Sui X, He XY, Liu NH, Dang YR, Cha QQ, Sun ML, Li CY, Fu HH, Song XY, Qin QL, et al. Marinifaba aquimaris gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chitin-degrading gammaproteobacterium in the family Alteromonadaceae isolated from seawater of the Mariana Trench. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:947-955. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Marinifaba aquimaris Sui et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001
Assigned by:
Sui X, He XY, Liu NH, Dang YR, Cha QQ, Sun ML, Li CY, Fu HH, Song XY, Qin QL, et al. Marinifaba aquimaris gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel chitin-degrading gammaproteobacterium in the family Alteromonadaceae isolated from seawater of the Mariana Trench. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:947-955. 🇨🇳
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Record number: 67867
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