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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Pseudogemmatithrix spongiicola

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Name: Pseudogemmatithrix spongiicola Haufschild et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: spon.gi.i’co.la. L. fem. n. spongia, sponge; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, inhabitant, dweller; from L. masc./fem. n. incola, dweller; N.L. masc./fem. n. spongiicola, sponge inhabitant

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CECT 9875; DSM 109487; LMG 31380; Strain 318; VKM B-3446

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16S rRNA gene: OR336385 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Haufschild T, Kallscheuer N, Hammer J, Kohn T, Kabuu M, Jogler M, Wohlfarth N, Rohde M, van Teeseling MCF, Jogler C. An untargeted cultivation approach revealed Pseudogemmatithrix spongiicola gen. nov., sp. nov., and sheds light on the gemmatimonadotal mode of cell division: binary fission. Sci Rep 2024; 14:16764.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 220. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6501.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudogemmatithrix Haufschild et al. 2024

Assigned by: Haufschild T, Kallscheuer N, Hammer J, Kohn T, Kabuu M, Jogler M, Wohlfarth N, Rohde M, van Teeseling MCF, Jogler C. An untargeted cultivation approach revealed Pseudogemmatithrix spongiicola gen. nov., sp. nov., and sheds light on the gemmatimonadotal mode of cell division: binary fission. Sci Rep 2024; 14:16764.

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Record number: 51220
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