Name: Orbus sturtevantii Phillips et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: stur.te.van’ti.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. sturtevantii, named after Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American fly geneticist, professor, and describer of Drosophila cardini, the fly species from which this bacterium was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: stur-te-WAN-ti-i, masculine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-400; lpD02; NCIMB 15518

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16S rRNA gene: OR490960 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Phillips LE, Sotelo KL, Moran NA. Characterization of gut symbionts from wild-caught Drosophila and other Diptera: description of Utexia brackfieldae gen. nov., sp. nov., Orbus sturtevantii sp. nov., Orbus wheelerorum sp. nov, and Orbus mooreae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6516.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 74, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6556.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07612 (N = 2).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-10-14.

Parent taxon: Orbus Volkmann et al. 2010

Assigned by: Phillips LE, Sotelo KL, Moran NA. Characterization of gut symbionts from wild-caught Drosophila and other Diptera: description of Utexia brackfieldae gen. nov., sp. nov., Orbus sturtevantii sp. nov., Orbus wheelerorum sp. nov, and Orbus mooreae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6516.

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Record number: 53702