Name: Spiribacter curvatus León et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cur.va’tus. L. masc. part. adj. curvatus, bended, curved, referring to the curved shape of the cell

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 8396; DSM 28542; UAH-SP71

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JF798749 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Leon MJ, Rodriguez-Olmos A, Sanchez-Porro C, Lopez-Perez M, Rodriguez-Valera F, Soliveri J, Ventosa A, Copa-Patino JL. Spiribacter curvatus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4638-4643.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1600-1602.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Spiribacter León et al. 2014

Assigned by: Leon MJ, Rodriguez-Olmos A, Sanchez-Porro C, Lopez-Perez M, Rodriguez-Valera F, Soliveri J, Ventosa A, Copa-Patino JL. Spiribacter curvatus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4638-4643.

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Record number: 793124