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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Aquirufa aurantiipilula

Name: Aquirufa aurantiipilula Pitt et al. 2022

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.ran.ti.i.pi’lu.la. N.L. masc. adj. aurantius, orange; L. fem. dim. n. pilula, small ball; N.L. fem. dim. n. aurantiipilula, orange colored small ball

Pronunciation, gender: a͡u-ran-ti-i-PI-lu-la, feminine

Type strain: 15D-MOB; CIP 111925; JCM 34078

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MZ665466 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Pitt A, Koll U, Schmidt J, Neumann-Schaal M, Wolf J, Krausz S, Hahn MW. Aquirufa lenticrescens sp. nov. and Aquirufa aurantiipilula sp. nov.: two new species of a lineage of widespread freshwater bacteria. Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:356.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 207. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5517.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Aquirufa Pitt et al. 2019

Assigned by: Pitt A, Koll U, Schmidt J, Neumann-Schaal M, Wolf J, Krausz S, Hahn MW. Aquirufa lenticrescens sp. nov. and Aquirufa aurantiipilula sp. nov.: two new species of a lineage of widespread freshwater bacteria. Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:356.

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Record number: 26478
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