Name: "Mariprofundus micogutta" Makita et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mic.o.gutta. L. v. mico, sparkle, twinkle; L. fem. gutt, a drop, spots; N.L. fem. n. micogutta, the type strain produces sparkling spot-like colonies under culture

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ET2; JCM 30585; KCTC 15556

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16S rRNA gene: LC107871 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Makita H, Tanaka E, Mitsunobu S, Miyazaki M, Nunoura T, Uematsu K, Takaki Y, Nishi S, Shimamura S, Takai K. Mariprofundus micogutta sp. nov., a novel iron-oxidizing zetaproteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field at the Bayonnaise knoll of the Izu-Ogasawara arc, and a description of Mariprofundales ord. nov. and Zetaproteobacteria classis nov. Arch Microbiol 2017; 199:335-346.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Mariprofundus Emerson et al. 2010

Assigned by: Makita H, Tanaka E, Mitsunobu S, Miyazaki M, Nunoura T, Uematsu K, Takaki Y, Nishi S, Shimamura S, Takai K. Mariprofundus micogutta sp. nov., a novel iron-oxidizing zetaproteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field at the Bayonnaise knoll of the Izu-Ogasawara arc, and a description of Mariprofundales ord. nov. and Zetaproteobacteria classis nov. Arch Microbiol 2017; 199:335-346.

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Record number: 1216