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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Moraxella macacae"

Name: "Moraxella macacae" Embers et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.ca’cae. N.L. fem. n. Macaca, generic name of macaques; N.L. gen. fem. n. macacae, of Macaca, isolated from Macaca mulatta

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: 0408225; CI24

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16S rRNA gene: HM037349 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Embers ME, Doyle LA, Whitehouse CA, Selby EB, Chappell M, Philipp MT. Characterization of a Moraxella species that causes epistaxis in macaques. Vet Microbiol 2011; 147:367-375.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Moraxella Lwoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Embers ME, Doyle LA, Whitehouse CA, Selby EB, Chappell M, Philipp MT. Characterization of a Moraxella species that causes epistaxis in macaques. Vet Microbiol 2011; 147:367-375.

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Record number: 1155
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