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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Ochrovirga"

Name: "Ochrovirga" Kwon et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Och.ro.vir’ga. Gr. masc. adj. ôchros, pale yellow; L. fem. n. virga, rod; N.L. fem. n. Ochrovirga, yellow-colored rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Ochrovirg-), okh-ro-WIR-ga

Type species: "Ochrovirga pacifica" Kwon et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kwon YK, Kim JH, Kim JJ, Yang SH, Ye BR, Heo SJ, Hyun JH, Qian ZJ, Park HS, Kang DH, et al. Ochrovirga pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel agar-lytic marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a seaweed. Curr Microbiol 2014; 69:445-450. 🇰🇷

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: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Kwon YK, Kim JH, Kim JJ, Yang SH, Ye BR, Heo SJ, Hyun JH, Qian ZJ, Park HS, Kang DH, et al. Ochrovirga pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel agar-lytic marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a seaweed. Curr Microbiol 2014; 69:445-450. 🇰🇷

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Record number: 285
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