Name: Psychromonas antarctica corrig. Mountfort et al. 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ant.arc’ti.ca L. fem. adj. antarctica, southern (in this instance pertaining to the Antarctic environment, where the organism was isolated)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 10704; star-1

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16S rRNA gene: Y14697 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mountfort DO, Rainey FA, Burghardt J, Kaspar HF, Stackebrandt E. Psychromonas antarcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., A new aerotolerant anaerobic, halophilic psychrophile isolated from pond sediment of the McMurdo ice shelf, antarctica. Arch Microbiol 1998; 169:231-238.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 66. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:631-632.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Psychromonas antarcticus Mountfort et al. 1998	homotypic synonym, orthographic variant

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Psychromonas Mountfort et al. 1998. Publication: Mountfort DO, Rainey FA, Burghardt J, Kaspar HF, Stackebrandt E. Psychromonas antarcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., A new aerotolerant anaerobic, halophilic psychrophile isolated from pond sediment of the McMurdo ice shelf, antarctica. Arch Microbiol 1998; 169:231-238.
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • Name corrected on validation; Psychromonas antarcticus (sic). Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 66. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:631-632.
  • The original spelling, Psychromonas antarcticus (sic), has been corrected by the Associate Editor, IJSB. Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 66. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:631-632.

Parent taxon: Psychromonas Mountfort et al. 1998

Assigned by: Mountfort DO, Rainey FA, Burghardt J, Kaspar HF, Stackebrandt E. Psychromonas antarcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., A new aerotolerant anaerobic, halophilic psychrophile isolated from pond sediment of the McMurdo ice shelf, antarctica. Arch Microbiol 1998; 169:231-238.

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Record number: 780254