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Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Nitrospira nitrosa"

Name: "Candidatus Nitrospira nitrosa" Van Kessel et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ni.tro’sa. L. fem. adj. nitrosa, nitrous, the nitrite and nitrate forming Nitrospira

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: COMA1

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16S rRNA gene: CZQA01000015 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: van Kessel MA, Speth DR, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, Op den Camp HJ, Kartal B, Jetten MS, Lucker S. Complete nitrification by a single microorganism. Nature 2015; 528:555-559.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986

Assigned by: van Kessel MA, Speth DR, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, Op den Camp HJ, Kartal B, Jetten MS, Lucker S. Complete nitrification by a single microorganism. Nature 2015; 528:555-559.

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Record number: 18127
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