Name: Alcanivorax nanhaiticus Lai et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: nan.hai’ti.cus N.L. masc. adj. nanhaiticus, pertaining to Nanhai, the Chinese name for the South China Sea, the site from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 19-m-6; KCTC 52137; MCCC 1A05629

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM453740 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lai Q, Zhou Z, Li G, Li G, Shao Z. Alcanivorax nanhaiticus sp. nov., isolated from deep sea sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3651-3655.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4921-4923.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998

Assigned by: Lai Q, Zhou Z, Li G, Li G, Shao Z. Alcanivorax nanhaiticus sp. nov., isolated from deep sea sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3651-3655.

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