Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Methylophaga alcalica

Name: Methylophaga alcalica Doronina et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al.ca’li.ca. N.L. neut. n. alcali, alkali (indeclinable); from Arabic masc. n. al-qalyi, soda ash; N.L. fem. adj. alcalica, from alkaline media

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-297; DSM 14953; M39; VKM B-2251

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16S rRNA gene: AF384373 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Doronina NV, Darmaeva TD, Trotsenko YA. Methylophaga alcalica sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic, obligately methylotrophic bacterium from an East Mongolian saline soda lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:223-229.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:629-630.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Methylophaga Janvier et al. 1985

Assigned by: Doronina NV, Darmaeva TD, Trotsenko YA. Methylophaga alcalica sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic, obligately methylotrophic bacterium from an East Mongolian saline soda lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:223-229.

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Record number: 777998
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