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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Oecophyllibacter

Name: Oecophyllibacter Chua et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Oe.co.phyl.li.bac.ter. N.L. fem. n. Oecophylla, a weaver ant genus; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Oecophyllibacter, a rod from the weaver ant Oecophylla

Gender: masculine (stem: Oecophyllibacter-)

Type species: Oecophyllibacter saccharovorans Chua et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Chua KO, See-Too WS, Tan JY, Song SL, Yong HS, Yin WF, Chan KG. Oecophyllibacter saccharovorans gen. nov. sp. nov., a bacterial symbiont of the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina. J Microbiol 2020; 58:988-997.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 199. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4773.

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: Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980

Assigned by: Chua KO, See-Too WS, Tan JY, Song SL, Yong HS, Yin WF, Chan KG. Oecophyllibacter saccharovorans gen. nov. sp. nov., a bacterial symbiont of the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina. J Microbiol 2020; 58:988-997.

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Record number: 19586
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