Name: Nautilia nitratireducens Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ni.tra.ti.re.du’cens. N.L. masc. n. nitras (gen. nitratis), nitrate; L. pres. part. reducens, leading back, bringing back and in chemistry converting to a different oxidation state; N.L. part. adj. nitratireducens, reducing nitrate

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 22087; EPR-MB1; JCM 15746; MB-1

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16S rRNA gene: FJ532475 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Perez-Rodriguez I, Ricci J, Voordeckers JW, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Nautilia nitratireducens sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic, chemosynthetic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1182-1186.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1715-1716.

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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Nautilia Miroshnichenko et al. 2002

Assigned by: Perez-Rodriguez I, Ricci J, Voordeckers JW, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Nautilia nitratireducens sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic, chemosynthetic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1182-1186.

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