Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Enterococcus termitis

Name: Enterococcus termitis Švec et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ter’mi.tis. L. masc. n. termes (gen. termitis), a worm that eats wood, a woodworm, and in zoology the name of a scientific genus; L. gen. masc. n. termitis, of a termite

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCM 7300; DSM 22803; LMG 8895

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16S rRNA gene: MT760127 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Svec P, Vancanneyt M, Sedlacek I, Naser SM, Snauwaert C, Lefebvre K, Hoste B, Swings J. Enterococcus silesiacus sp. nov. and Enterococcus termitis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:577-581.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1181-1182.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Enterococcus (ex Thiercelin and Jouhaud 1903) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984

Assigned by: Svec P, Vancanneyt M, Sedlacek I, Naser SM, Snauwaert C, Lefebvre K, Hoste B, Swings J. Enterococcus silesiacus sp. nov. and Enterococcus termitis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:577-581.

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Record number: 783777
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