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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Corynebacterium meitnerae

Name: Corynebacterium meitnerae Cappelli et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mei’tner.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. meitnerae, of Meitner, in honor of Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist, who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics and, together with Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann, discovered the nuclear fission

Gender: neuter

Type strain: c8Ua_172; CCP 75; DSM 113406

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JAKMUS010000028 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Cappelli EA, Ksiezarek M, Wolf J, Neumann-Schaal M, Ribeiro TG, Peixe L. Expanding the Bacterial Diversity of the Female Urinary Microbiome: Description of Eight New Corynebacterium Species. Microorganisms 2023; 11:388.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 211. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5845.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Cappelli EA, Ksiezarek M, Wolf J, Neumann-Schaal M, Ribeiro TG, Peixe L. Expanding the Bacterial Diversity of the Female Urinary Microbiome: Description of Eight New Corynebacterium Species. Microorganisms 2023; 11:388.

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Record number: 36319
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