Name: Muricauda ruestringensis Bruns et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: rue.strin’gen.sis N.L. masc./fem. adj. ruestringensis, of Rüstringen, referring to the former village of Rüstringen, which was destroyed by a tidal wave in 1362, near the site of which the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: B1; DSM 13258; LMG 19739

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16S rRNA gene: MN905360 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bruns A, Rohde M, Berthe-Corti L. Muricauda ruestringensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, appendaged bacterium from German North Sea intertidal sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1997-2006.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:5-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Muricauda Bruns et al. 2001. Publication: Bruns A, Rohde M, Berthe-Corti L. Muricauda ruestringensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, appendaged bacterium from German North Sea intertidal sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1997-2006.
  • The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Huntemann M, Teshima H, Lapidus A, Nolan M, Lucas S, Hammon N, Deshpande S, Cheng JF, Tapia R, Goodwin LA, et al. Complete genome sequence of the facultatively anaerobic, appendaged bacterium Muricauda ruestringensis type strain (B1^T). Stand Genomic Sci 2012; 6:185-193.

Parent taxon: Muricauda Bruns et al. 2001

Assigned by: Bruns A, Rohde M, Berthe-Corti L. Muricauda ruestringensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, appendaged bacterium from German North Sea intertidal sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1997-2006.

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