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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Sporofaciens

Name: Sporofaciens Rasmussen et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spo.ro.fa’ci.ens. Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed and, in biology, a spore; L. pres. part. faciens, making; N.L. masc. n. Sporofaciens, spore-maker

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Sporofacient-), spo-ro-FA-ki-ens

Type species: Sporofaciens musculi Rasmussen et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rasmussen TS, Streidl T, Hitch TCA, Wortmann E, Deptula P, Kofoed MVW, Riedel T, Neumann-Schaal M, Hansen M, Nielsen DS, et al. Sporofaciens musculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from the caecum of an obese mouse. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 71:0. 🇩🇰

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 71, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4812.

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: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Assigned by: Rasmussen TS, Streidl T, Hitch TCA, Wortmann E, Deptula P, Kofoed MVW, Riedel T, Neumann-Schaal M, Hansen M, Nielsen DS, et al. Sporofaciens musculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from the caecum of an obese mouse. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 71:0. 🇩🇰

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Record number: 18142
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