Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Paenibacillus azoreducens

Name: Paenibacillus azoreducens Meehan et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: azo.reduc’ens. Gr. n. azo, a combining form meaning nitrogen; L. pres. part. reducens, reducing; N.L. part. adj. azoreducens, nitrogen-reducing, referring to the ability to decolorize azo-, based textile dyes by reductive cleavage of the azo linkage

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 107224; CM1; DSM 13822; NCIMB 13761

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16S rRNA gene: AJ272249 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Meehan C, Bjourson AJ, McMullan G. Paenibacillus azoreducens sp. nov., a synthetic azo dye decolorizing bacterium from industrial wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1681-1685.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Paenibacillus Ash et al. 1994

Assigned by: Meehan C, Bjourson AJ, McMullan G. Paenibacillus azoreducens sp. nov., a synthetic azo dye decolorizing bacterium from industrial wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1681-1685.

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Record number: 779049
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