Name: Thiophaeococcus mangrovi Anil Kumar et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: man.gro’vi. N.L. gen. neut. n. mangrovi, of a mangrove, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a mangrove forest

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 19863; JA304; JCM 14889

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16S rRNA gene: AM748925 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Imhoff JF. Thiophaeococcus mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., a photosynthetic, marine gammaproteobacterium isolated from the Bhitarkanika mangrove forest of India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2660-2664.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:205-206.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Thiophaeococcus Anil Kumar et al. 2008. Publication: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Imhoff JF. Thiophaeococcus mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., a photosynthetic, marine gammaproteobacterium isolated from the Bhitarkanika mangrove forest of India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2660-2664.
  • 😷 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: Thiophaeococcus Anil Kumar et al. 2008

Assigned by: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Imhoff JF. Thiophaeococcus mangrovi gen. nov., sp. nov., a photosynthetic, marine gammaproteobacterium isolated from the Bhitarkanika mangrove forest of India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2660-2664.

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Record number: 786948