Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Microbacterium keratanolyticum

Name: Microbacterium keratanolyticum (Yokota et al. 1993) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Aureobacterium keratanolyticum Yokota et al. 1993

Etymology: ke.ra.ta.no.ly.ti.cum. N.L. neut. n. keratanum, keratan, sulfur-containing polysaccharide produced by mammals; N.L. neut. adj. lyticum, able to loose, able to dissolve; from Gr. neut. adj. lytikon, able to loose, dissolving; N.L. neut. adj. keratanolyticum, keratan dissolving

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 35057; CIP 103815; DSM 8606; IFO 13309; JCM 9173; LMG 16470; NBRC 13309; VKM Ac-1958

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16S rRNA gene: AB004717 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Takeuchi M, Hatano K. Union of the genera Microbacterium Orla-Jensen and Aureobacterium Collins et al. in a redefined genus Microbacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:739-747.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Microbacterium Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Takeuchi M, Hatano K. Union of the genera Microbacterium Orla-Jensen and Aureobacterium Collins et al. in a redefined genus Microbacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:739-747.

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Record number: 778044
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