Name: Collimonas fungivorans De Boer et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fun.gi.vo’rans. L. masc. n. fungus, mould, mushroom, fungus; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring, eating; N.L. part. adj. fungivorans, fungus-eating

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 48868; DSM 17622; LMG 21973; NCCB 100033; Ter6

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ310394 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: de Boer W, Leveau JH, Kowalchuk GA, Klein Gunnewiek PJ, Abeln EC, Figge MJ, Sjollema K, Janse JD, van Veen JA. Collimonas fungivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic soil bacterium with the ability to grow on living fungal hyphae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:857-864.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1427-1428.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Collimonas De Boer et al. 2004. Publication: de Boer W, Leveau JH, Kowalchuk GA, Klein Gunnewiek PJ, Abeln EC, Figge MJ, Sjollema K, Janse JD, van Veen JA. Collimonas fungivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic soil bacterium with the ability to grow on living fungal hyphae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:857-864.

Parent taxon: Collimonas De Boer et al. 2004

Assigned by: de Boer W, Leveau JH, Kowalchuk GA, Klein Gunnewiek PJ, Abeln EC, Figge MJ, Sjollema K, Janse JD, van Veen JA. Collimonas fungivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic soil bacterium with the ability to grow on living fungal hyphae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:857-864.

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