Name: Petrotoga mobilis Lien et al. 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mo’bi.lis. L. masc./fem. adj. mobilis, movable, motile

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 10674; SJ95

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: Y15479 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lien T, Madsen M, Rainey FA, Birkeland NK. Petrotoga mobilis sp. nov., from a North Sea oil-production well. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1007-1013.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • The epithet of this taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "mobilk".
  • The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.28821 (N = 2).

Parent taxon: Petrotoga Davey et al. 1993

Assigned by: Lien T, Madsen M, Rainey FA, Birkeland NK. Petrotoga mobilis sp. nov., from a North Sea oil-production well. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1007-1013.

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Record number: 779424