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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Sphingomonas phoenicis"

Name: "Sphingomonas phoenicis" Schultz et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: phoe.ni’cis. L. gen. masc. n. phoenicis, of phoenix, isolated from the sur face of the clean room where the Mars Phoenix spacecraft was assem bled

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … pho͡e-NI-kis, feminine

Nomenclatural type: 1P08PE; 1P08PE cT; MTCC 13943

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16S rRNA gene: EU977752 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Schultz J, Jamil T, Sengupta P, Sivabalan SKM, Rawat A, Patel N, Krishnamurthi S, Alam I, Singh NK, Raman K, et al. Genomic insights into novel extremotolerant bacteria isolated from the NASA Phoenix mission spacecraft assembly cleanrooms. Microbiome 2025; 13:117. 🇸🇦

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Sphingomonas Yabuuchi et al. 1990

Assigned by: Schultz J, Jamil T, Sengupta P, Sivabalan SKM, Rawat A, Patel N, Krishnamurthi S, Alam I, Singh NK, Raman K, et al. Genomic insights into novel extremotolerant bacteria isolated from the NASA Phoenix mission spacecraft assembly cleanrooms. Microbiome 2025; 13:117. 🇸🇦

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Record number: 66043
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