Name: Paraferrimonas sedimenticola Khan and Harayama 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: se.di.men.ti.co’la. L. neut. n. sedimentum, a settling, sediment; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, dweller; N.L. masc./fem. n. sedimenticola, sediment dweller, referring to the isolation of the strains from sediment at Okinawa Island

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CIP 109284; Mok-106; NBRC 101628

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16S rRNA gene: AB252732 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Khan ST, Harayama S. Paraferrimonas sedimenticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family Ferrimonadaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1493-1498.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Paraferrimonas Khan and Harayama 2007. Publication: Khan ST, Harayama S. Paraferrimonas sedimenticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family Ferrimonadaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1493-1498.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Paraferrimonas Khan and Harayama 2007

Assigned by: Khan ST, Harayama S. Paraferrimonas sedimenticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family Ferrimonadaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1493-1498.

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Record number: 786507