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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Cytophaga sensitiva"

Name: "Cytophaga sensitiva" Humm 1946

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: M.L. fem. adj. sensitiva, sensitive

Gender: feminine

Original publication: Humm HJ. Marine agar-digesting bacteria of the South Atlantic coast. Bulletin of Duke University Marine Station 1946; 3:45-75.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Cytophaga Winogradsky 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Humm HJ. Marine agar-digesting bacteria of the South Atlantic coast. Bulletin of Duke University Marine Station 1946; 3:45-75.

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Record number: 67813

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