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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Petrocella atlantisensis

Name: Petrocella atlantisensis Quéméneur et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.tlan.ti.sen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. atlantisensis, originated from the Atlantis Massif

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … a-tlan-ti-SEN-sis, feminine

Type strain: 70B-A; DSM 105309; JCM 32078

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KY969626 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Quemeneur M, Erauso G, Frouin E, Zeghal E, Vandecasteele C, Ollivier B, Tamburini C, Garel M, Menez B, Postec A. Hydrostatic Pressure Helps to Cultivate an Original Anaerobic Bacterium From the Atlantis Massif Subseafloor (IODP Expedition 357): Petrocella atlantisensis gen. nov. sp. nov. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1497. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 190. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3313-3314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Petrocella Quéméneur et al. 2019

Assigned by: Quemeneur M, Erauso G, Frouin E, Zeghal E, Vandecasteele C, Ollivier B, Tamburini C, Garel M, Menez B, Postec A. Hydrostatic Pressure Helps to Cultivate an Original Anaerobic Bacterium From the Atlantis Massif Subseafloor (IODP Expedition 357): Petrocella atlantisensis gen. nov. sp. nov. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1497. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 5365
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