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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Sungkyunkwania

Name: Sungkyunkwania Yoon et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sung.kyun.kwa’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Sungkyunkwania, named after Sungkyunkwan University, where taxonomic studies of this taxon were performed

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Sungkyunkwani-), sun͡g-kyun-KWA-ni-a

Type species: Sungkyunkwania multivorans Yoon et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon JH, Gyeong HR, Kim SI. Sungkyunkwania multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from seawater from a seaweed farm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1995-2001. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3135-3137.

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: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Yoon JH, Gyeong HR, Kim SI. Sungkyunkwania multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from seawater from a seaweed farm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1995-2001. 🇰🇷

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Record number: 518363
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