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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Methanolobus psychrotolerans

Name: Methanolobus psychrotolerans Chen et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: psy.chro.to’le.rans. Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. masc. part. adj. psychrotolerans, cold-tolerating

Pronunciation, gender: psy-khro-TO-le-rans, masculine

Type strain: BCRC AR10049; DSM 104044; NBRC 112514; YSF-03

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX573102 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen SC, Huang HH, Lai MC, Weng CY, Chiu HH, Tang SL, Rogozin DY, Degermendzhy AG. Methanolobus psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant methanoarchaeon isolated from a saline meromictic lake in Siberia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1378-1383.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2134-2136.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Methanolobus König and Stetter 1983

Assigned by: Chen SC, Huang HH, Lai MC, Weng CY, Chiu HH, Tang SL, Rogozin DY, Degermendzhy AG. Methanolobus psychrotolerans sp. nov., a psychrotolerant methanoarchaeon isolated from a saline meromictic lake in Siberia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1378-1383.

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Record number: 796396
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