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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Kaistia cartagenensis"

Name: "Kaistia cartagenensis" Jiménez et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: car.ta.ge.nen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. cartagenensis, pertaining to Cartagena de Indias, the city close to Barú peninsula, where the mangrove soil samples were taken to build up the microcosms experiment

Gender: feminine

Original publication: Jimenez DJ, Chaparro D, Sierra F, Custer GF, Feuerriegel G, Chuvochina M, Diaz-Garcia L, Mendes LW, Ortega Santiago YP, Rubiano-Labrador C, et al. Engineering the mangrove soil microbiome for selection of polyethylene terephthalate-transforming bacterial consortia. Trends Biotechnol 2025; 43:162-183. 🇸🇦

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Kaistia Im et al. 2005

Assigned by: Jimenez DJ, Chaparro D, Sierra F, Custer GF, Feuerriegel G, Chuvochina M, Diaz-Garcia L, Mendes LW, Ortega Santiago YP, Rubiano-Labrador C, et al. Engineering the mangrove soil microbiome for selection of polyethylene terephthalate-transforming bacterial consortia. Trends Biotechnol 2025; 43:162-183. 🇸🇦

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Record number: 67614

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