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Genus Microaerobacter
Name: Microaerobacter Khelifi et al. 2011
Etymology: Mi.cro.a.e.ro.bac’ter. Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small, little (may keep -o); Gr. masc. n. aêr (gen. aeros), air; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Microaerobacter, able to live in the presence of small quantities of O2
Gender: masculine (stem: Microaerobacter-)
Type species: Microaerobacter geothermalis Khelifi et al. 2011
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Khelifi N, Ben Romdhane E, Hedi A, Postec A, Fardeau ML, Hamdi M, Tholozan JL, Ollivier B, Hirschler-Rea A. Characterization of Microaerobacter geothermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel microaerophilic, nitrate- and nitrite-reducing thermophilic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial hot spring in Tunisia. Extremophiles 2010; 14:297-304. 
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 137. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1-3.
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 Microaerobacter geothermalis Khelifi et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Khelifi N, Ben Romdhane E, Hedi A, Postec A, Fardeau ML, Hamdi M, Tholozan JL, Ollivier B, Hirschler-Rea A. Characterization of Microaerobacter geothermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel microaerophilic, nitrate- and nitrite-reducing thermophilic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial hot spring in Tunisia. Extremophiles 2010; 14:297-304.
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Record number: 517972
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