Name: Teredinibacter waterburyi Altamia et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: wa.ter.bu’ry.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. waterburyi, named in honour of the microbiologist Dr. John Waterbury who first isolated symbionts from teredinid bivalves

Pronunciation, gender: wa-ter-BU-ry-i, masculine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-120; Bs02; KCTC 62963

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16S rRNA gene: MK938300 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Altamia MA, Shipway JR, Stein D, Betcher MA, Fung JM, Jospin G, Eisen J, Haygood MG, Distel DL. Teredinibacter waterburyi sp. nov., a marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacterium isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended description of the genus Teredinibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2388-2394.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002

Assigned by: Altamia MA, Shipway JR, Stein D, Betcher MA, Fung JM, Jospin G, Eisen J, Haygood MG, Distel DL. Teredinibacter waterburyi sp. nov., a marine, cellulolytic endosymbiotic bacterium isolated from the gills of the wood-boring mollusc Bankia setacea (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) and emended description of the genus Teredinibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2388-2394.

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Record number: 1704