Name: Methylomonas scandinavica Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: scan.di.na.vi.ca. N.L. fem. adj. scandinavica, pertaining to Scandinavia (isolated from groundwater of the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory tunnel, southeastern Sweden)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: SR5

16S rRNA gene: AJ131369 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kalyuzhnaya MG, Khmelenina VN, Kotelnikova S, Holmquist L, Pedersen K, Trotsenko YA. Methylomonas scandinavica sp. nov., a new methanotrophic psychrotrophic bacterium isolated from deep igneous rock ground water of Sweden. Syst Appl Microbiol 1999; 22:565-572.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 74. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:949-950.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The strain VKM B-2140, cited in the Validation List no. 74, does not appear in the VKM catalogue. Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 74. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:949-950.

Parent taxon: Methylomonas (ex Leadbetter 1974) Whittenbury and Krieg 1984

Assigned by: Kalyuzhnaya MG, Khmelenina VN, Kotelnikova S, Holmquist L, Pedersen K, Trotsenko YA. Methylomonas scandinavica sp. nov., a new methanotrophic psychrotrophic bacterium isolated from deep igneous rock ground water of Sweden. Syst Appl Microbiol 1999; 22:565-572.

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