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Species "Curtobacterium phoenicis"
Name: "Curtobacterium phoenicis" Schultz et al. 2025
Etymology: phoe’ni.cis. L. gen. masc. n. phoenicis, of phoenix, isolated from the surface of the clean room where the Mars Phoenix spacecraft was assembled
Nomenclatural type: 1P10AnD; DSM 117985; MTCC 13639
Original publication:
Schultz J, Jamil T, Sengupta P, Sivabalan SKM, Rawat A, Patel N, Krishnamurthi S, Alam I, Singh NK, Raman K, et al. Genomic insights into novel extremotolerant bacteria isolated from the NASA Phoenix mission spacecraft assembly cleanrooms. Microbiome 2025; 13:117. 
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
Parent taxon: Curtobacterium Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Schultz J, Jamil T, Sengupta P, Sivabalan SKM, Rawat A, Patel N, Krishnamurthi S, Alam I, Singh NK, Raman K, et al. Genomic insights into novel extremotolerant bacteria isolated from the NASA Phoenix mission spacecraft assembly cleanrooms. Microbiome 2025; 13:117.
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Record number: 66029
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