Name: "Magnetofaba australis" Morillo et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: aus.tra’lis. L. masc./fem. adj. australis, of Southern or of the south, which refers to the polar south-seeking magnetotaxis behavior and because the bacterium was isolated from South hemisphere

Gender: feminine

Type strain: IT-1

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JX534168 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Morillo V, Abreu F, Araujo AC, de Almeida LG, Enrich-Prast A, Farina M, de Vasconcelos AT, Bazylinski DA, Lins U. Isolation, cultivation and genomic analysis of magnetosome biomineralization genes of a new genus of South-seeking magnetotactic cocci within the Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:72.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Magnetofaba" Morillo et al. 2014. Publication: Morillo V, Abreu F, Araujo AC, de Almeida LG, Enrich-Prast A, Farina M, de Vasconcelos AT, Bazylinski DA, Lins U. Isolation, cultivation and genomic analysis of magnetosome biomineralization genes of a new genus of South-seeking magnetotactic cocci within the Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:72.

Parent taxon: "Magnetofaba" Morillo et al. 2014

Assigned by: Morillo V, Abreu F, Araujo AC, de Almeida LG, Enrich-Prast A, Farina M, de Vasconcelos AT, Bazylinski DA, Lins U. Isolation, cultivation and genomic analysis of magnetosome biomineralization genes of a new genus of South-seeking magnetotactic cocci within the Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:72.

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Record number: 1138