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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Nitrospira allomarina"

Name: "Nitrospira allomarina" Mueller et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al.lo.ma.ri’na. Gr. masc. pron. allos, other; L. fem. adj. marina, of the sea; N.L. fem. adj. allomarina, a species related to but distinct from the existing species Nitrospira marina

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ni-tro-SPI-ra al-lo-ma-RI-na, feminine

Original publication: Mueller AJ, Daebeler A, Herbold CW, Kirkegaard RH, Daims H. Cultivation and genomic characterization of novel and ubiquitous marine nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the Nitrospirales. ISME J 2023; 17:2123-2133. 🇦🇹

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986

Assigned by: Mueller AJ, Daebeler A, Herbold CW, Kirkegaard RH, Daims H. Cultivation and genomic characterization of novel and ubiquitous marine nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the Nitrospirales. ISME J 2023; 17:2123-2133. 🇦🇹

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Record number: 57408

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