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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Veillonella orbiculus"

Name: "Veillonella orbiculus" (Tissier 1908) Pelczar 1957

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Etymology: or.bi’cu.lus. L. masc. n. orbiculus, small disc

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: we͡il-lo-NEL-la or-BI-ku-lus, feminine

Original publication: Breed RS, Murray EG, Smith NR. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1957.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Veillonella Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Breed RS, Murray EG, Smith NR. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1957.

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Record number: 63950

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