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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Geomonas pelophila"

Name: "Geomonas pelophila" (Straub and Buchholz-Cleven 2001) Xu et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Geobacter pelophilus Straub and Buchholz-Cleven 2001

Etymology: pe.lo’phi.la. Gr. masc. n. pêlos, mud; Gr. masc. adj. philos, loving; N.L. fem. adj. pelophila, mud-loving, as this species was isolated from freshwater mud

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: ATCC BAA-603; Dfr2; DSM 12255; OCM 797

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: U96918 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Xu Z, Masuda Y, Itoh H, Ushijima N, Shiratori Y, Senoo K. Geomonas oryzae gen. nov., sp. nov., Geomonas edaphica sp. nov., Geomonas ferrireducens sp. nov., Geomonas terrae sp. nov., Four Ferric-Reducing Bacteria Isolated From Paddy Soil, and Reclassification of Three Species of the Genus Geobacter as Members of the Genus Geomonas gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2201.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Geoanaerobacter pelophilus (Straub and Buchholz-Cleven 2001) Xu et al. 2022

Parent taxon: Geomonas Xu et al. 2020

Assigned by: Xu Z, Masuda Y, Itoh H, Ushijima N, Shiratori Y, Senoo K. Geomonas oryzae gen. nov., sp. nov., Geomonas edaphica sp. nov., Geomonas ferrireducens sp. nov., Geomonas terrae sp. nov., Four Ferric-Reducing Bacteria Isolated From Paddy Soil, and Reclassification of Three Species of the Genus Geobacter as Members of the Genus Geomonas gen. nov. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2201.

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Record number: 3326
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