Name: "Magnetovirga frankeli" Sirinelli-Kojadinovic et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fran’kel.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. frankeli, of Frankel, named in honor of US physicist Richard B. Frankel from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, who made major contributions to the study of magnetotactic bacteria

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: DSM 116211; JCM 39467; SS-5

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16S rRNA gene: HQ595729 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Sirinelli-Kojadinovic M, Turrini ECA, Ropion E, Alonso B, Bergot M, Gachon E, Ortet P, Soto-Rodriguez PED, Monteil CL, Lefevre CT. Magnetovirga frankeli gen. Nov., sp. nov., a magnetotactic bacterium isolated from the Salton Sea, California, that represents a novel lineage in the Gammaprotoeobacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126621. 🇫🇷

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Magnetovirga" Sirinelli-Kojadinovic et al. 2025. Publication: Sirinelli-Kojadinovic M, Turrini ECA, Ropion E, Alonso B, Bergot M, Gachon E, Ortet P, Soto-Rodriguez PED, Monteil CL, Lefevre CT. Magnetovirga frankeli gen. Nov., sp. nov., a magnetotactic bacterium isolated from the Salton Sea, California, that represents a novel lineage in the Gammaprotoeobacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126621. 🇫🇷

Parent taxon: "Magnetovirga" Sirinelli-Kojadinovic et al. 2025

Assigned by: Sirinelli-Kojadinovic M, Turrini ECA, Ropion E, Alonso B, Bergot M, Gachon E, Ortet P, Soto-Rodriguez PED, Monteil CL, Lefevre CT. Magnetovirga frankeli gen. Nov., sp. nov., a magnetotactic bacterium isolated from the Salton Sea, California, that represents a novel lineage in the Gammaprotoeobacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126621. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 65811