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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Vaginella"

Name: "Vaginella" Diop et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Va.gi.nel’la. L. fem. n. vagina, ‘vagina, ’ part of the female genital tract; L. fem. dim. n. suff. -ella, diminutive ending; N.L. fem. dim. n. Vaginella, ‘small vagina’, referring to the source of the isolation of the type strain

Gender: feminine (stem: Vaginell-)

Type species: "Vaginella massiliensis" Diop et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Diop K, Bretelle F, Michelle C, Richez M, Rathored J, Raoult D, Fournier PE, Fenollar F. Taxonogenomics and description of Vaginella massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., strain Marseille P2517T, a new bacterial genus isolated from the human vagina. New Microbes New Infect 2017; 15:94-103. 🇫🇷

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: Diop K, Bretelle F, Michelle C, Richez M, Rathored J, Raoult D, Fournier PE, Fenollar F. Taxonogenomics and description of Vaginella massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., strain Marseille P2517T, a new bacterial genus isolated from the human vagina. New Microbes New Infect 2017; 15:94-103. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 466
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