Name: "Candidatus Nitrotoga arctica" Alawi et al. 2007
Etymology: arc’ti.ca. L. neut. n. nitrum, nitrate; L. fem. n. toga, Roman outer garment; N.L. fem. n. Nitrotoga; L. fem. adj. arctica, named after the place where the organism was first discovered
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Original publication: Alawi M, Lipski A, Sanders T, Pfeiffer EM, Spieck E. Cultivation of a novel cold-adapted nitrite oxidizing betaproteobacterium from the Siberian Arctic. ISME J 2007; 1:256-264.
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: "Candidatus Nitrotoga" Alawi et al. 2007
Assigned by: Alawi M, Lipski A, Sanders T, Pfeiffer EM, Spieck E. Cultivation of a novel cold-adapted nitrite oxidizing betaproteobacterium from the Siberian Arctic. ISME J 2007; 1:256-264.
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Record number: 800578