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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Oceanomicrobium"

Name: "Oceanomicrobium" Dai et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: O.ce.a.no.mi.cro.bi.um. Gr. masc. n. Ôkeanos, the ocean; N.L. neut. n. microbium, a microbe; from Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small (may keep -o); from Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Oceanomicrobium, a small microbe loving in ocean

Gender: neuter (stem: Oceanomicrobi-)

Type species: "Oceanomicrobium pacificus" Dai et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Dai D, Li Y, He W, Qin F, Zheng J, Sun M, Zhang D. Oceanomicrobium pacificus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from seawater of tropical western Pacific. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:303-311.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.

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Record number: 17731
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