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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Peptoniphilus methioninivorax

Name: Peptoniphilus methioninivorax Rooney et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.thi.o.ni.ni’vo.rax. N.L. fem. n. methionina, methionine; L. adj. vorax, devouring, ravenous, voracious, consuming; N.L. masc. adj. methioninivorax, glycyl l-methionine-consuming

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pep-to-NI-phi-lus me-thi-o-ni-NI-wo-rax, masculine

Type strain: DSM 22461; NRRL B-23883

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16S rRNA gene: GU440754 Analysetree FASTA download

Valid publication: Rooney AP, Swezey JL, Pukall R, Schumann P, Spring S. Peptoniphilus methioninivorax sp. nov., a Gram-positive anaerobic coccus isolated from retail ground beef. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1962-1967. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2566-2567.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Peptoniphilus Ezaki et al. 2001

Assigned by: Rooney AP, Swezey JL, Pukall R, Schumann P, Spring S. Peptoniphilus methioninivorax sp. nov., a Gram-positive anaerobic coccus isolated from retail ground beef. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1962-1967. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 789383

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