Name: Thiocapsa marina Caumette et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.ri’na. L. fem. adj. marina, belonging to the marine environment

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 5811; ATCC 43172; DSM 5653

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF112998 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Caumette P, Guyoneaud R, Imhoff JF, Suling J, Gorlenko V. Thiocapsa marina sp. nov., a novel, okenone-containing, purple sulfur bacterium isolated from brackish coastal and marine environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1031-1036.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.15000 (N = 13).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Thiocapsa Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Caumette P, Guyoneaud R, Imhoff JF, Suling J, Gorlenko V. Thiocapsa marina sp. nov., a novel, okenone-containing, purple sulfur bacterium isolated from brackish coastal and marine environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1031-1036.

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Record number: 782727