Name: Falcatimonas natans Watanabe et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: na’tans. L. part. adj. natans, swimming, referring to the mobility of cells

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 22923; JCM 16476; WN011

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16S rRNA gene: AB298726 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Watanabe M, Kaku N, Ueki K, Ueki A. Falcatimonas natans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4639-4644.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:179-182.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Falcatimonas Watanabe et al. 2016. Publication: Watanabe M, Kaku N, Ueki K, Ueki A. Falcatimonas natans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4639-4644.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Falcatimonas Watanabe et al. 2016

Assigned by: Watanabe M, Kaku N, Ueki K, Ueki A. Falcatimonas natans gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, amino-acid-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4639-4644.

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