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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Nitrospina watsonii"

Name: "Nitrospina watsonii" Spieck et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: wat.so’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. watsonii, named after Stanley Watson, a microbiologist who devoted his scientific life to nitrifying bacteria

Pronunciation, gender: wat-SO-ni-i, feminine

Nomenclatural type: 347; LMG 27401; NCIMB 14887

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16S rRNA gene: JX645704 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Spieck E, Keuter S, Wenzel T, Bock E, Ludwig W. Characterization of a new marine nitrite oxidizing bacterium, Nitrospina watsonii sp. nov., a member of the newly proposed phylum "Nitrospinae". Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:170-176.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Spieck E, Keuter S, Wenzel T, Bock E, Ludwig W. Characterization of a new marine nitrite oxidizing bacterium, Nitrospina watsonii sp. nov., a member of the newly proposed phylum "Nitrospinae". Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:170-176.

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Record number: 2199
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