Name: Alcanivorax borkumensis Yakimov et al. 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bor.kum.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. borkumensis, pertaining to the island of Borkum, a small island inWestern-Elms harbor in the North Sea, located close to the German-Dutch border

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 700651; CIP 105606; DSM 11573; SK2

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16S rRNA gene: Y12579 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yakimov MM, Golyshin PN, Lang S, Moore ER, Abraham WR, Lunsdorf H, Timmis KN. Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:339-348.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:633-634.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998. Publication: Yakimov MM, Golyshin PN, Lang S, Moore ER, Abraham WR, Lunsdorf H, Timmis KN. Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:339-348.

Parent taxon: Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998

Assigned by: Yakimov MM, Golyshin PN, Lang S, Moore ER, Abraham WR, Lunsdorf H, Timmis KN. Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:339-348.

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