Name: Marinitoga okinawensis Nunoura et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: o.ki.na.wen’sis N.L. masc./fem. adj. okinawensis, of Okinawa, a region of Japan

Gender: feminine

Type strains: DSM 17373; JCM 13303; TFS10-5

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16S rRNA gene: AB262395 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nunoura T, Oida H, Miyazaki M, Suzuki Y, Takai K, Horikoshi K. Marinitoga okinawensis sp. nov., a novel thermophilic and anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field, Southern Okinawa Trough. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:467-471.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1173-1174.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Marinitoga Wery et al. 2001

Assigned by: Nunoura T, Oida H, Miyazaki M, Suzuki Y, Takai K, Horikoshi K. Marinitoga okinawensis sp. nov., a novel thermophilic and anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field, Southern Okinawa Trough. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:467-471.

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