Name: Moritella profunda Xu et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pro.fun’da. L. fem. adj. profunda, from the deep

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 2674; JCM 11435; LMG 21259

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AJ252023 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xu Y, Nogi Y, Kato C, Liang Z, Ruger HJ, De Kegel D, Glansdorff N. Moritella profunda sp. nov. and Moritella abyssi sp. nov., two psychropiezophilic organisms isolated from deep Atlantic sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:533-538.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:939-940.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 25 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Moritella Urakawa et al. 1999

Assigned by: Xu Y, Nogi Y, Kato C, Liang Z, Ruger HJ, De Kegel D, Glansdorff N. Moritella profunda sp. nov. and Moritella abyssi sp. nov., two psychropiezophilic organisms isolated from deep Atlantic sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:533-538.

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Record number: 784294