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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Mergibacter

Name: Mergibacter De Luca et al. 2023

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Mer.gi.bac’ter. L. masc. n. mergus, a seabird; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Mergibacter, a rod of a seabird

Gender: masculine (stem: Mergibacter-)

Type species: Mergibacter septicus De Luca et al. 2023

Effective publication: De Luca E, Alvarez-Narvaez S, Maboni G, Baptista RP, Nemeth NM, Niedringhaus KD, Ladner JT, Lorch JM, Koroleva G, Lovett S, et al. Comparative Genomics Analyses Support the Reclassification of Bisgaard Taxon 40 as Mergibacter gen. nov., With Mergibacter septicus sp. nov. as Type Species: Novel Insights Into the Phylogeny and Virulence Factors of a Pasteurellaceae Family Member Associated With Mortality Events in Seabirds. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:667356.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 209. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5709.

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: Pasteurellaceae Pohl 1981

Assigned by: De Luca E, Alvarez-Narvaez S, Maboni G, Baptista RP, Nemeth NM, Niedringhaus KD, Ladner JT, Lorch JM, Koroleva G, Lovett S, et al. Comparative Genomics Analyses Support the Reclassification of Bisgaard Taxon 40 as Mergibacter gen. nov., With Mergibacter septicus sp. nov. as Type Species: Novel Insights Into the Phylogeny and Virulence Factors of a Pasteurellaceae Family Member Associated With Mortality Events in Seabirds. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:667356.

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Record number: 36160
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