Name: Longimicrobium terrae Pascual et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ter’rae. L. gen. fem. n. terrae, of the soil, the source of the type strain

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CB 286315; CECT 8660; DSM 29007

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16S rRNA gene: LN833202 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pascual J, Garcia-Lopez M, Bills GF, Genilloud O. Longimicrobium terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., an oligotrophic bacterium of the under-represented phylum Gemmatimonadetes isolated through a system of miniaturized diffusion chambers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1976-1985.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2767-2768.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Longimicrobium Pascual et al. 2016. Publication: Pascual J, Garcia-Lopez M, Bills GF, Genilloud O. Longimicrobium terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., an oligotrophic bacterium of the under-represented phylum Gemmatimonadetes isolated through a system of miniaturized diffusion chambers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1976-1985.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Longimicrobium Pascual et al. 2016

Assigned by: Pascual J, Garcia-Lopez M, Bills GF, Genilloud O. Longimicrobium terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., an oligotrophic bacterium of the under-represented phylum Gemmatimonadetes isolated through a system of miniaturized diffusion chambers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1976-1985.

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Record number: 794117