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Flavilitoribacter

Flavilitoribacter nigricans is a bacterium from the family Lewinellaceae which has been isolated from beach sand near Lagos in Nigeria. It is the only species in the genus Flavilitoribacter.

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Flavilitoribacter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Saprospiria
Order: Saprospirales
Family: Lewinellaceae
Genus: Flavilitoribacter
García-López et al. 20202
Species:
F. nigricans
Binomial name
Flavilitoribacter nigricans
(Lewin 1970) García-López et al. 20201
Type strain3
ATCC 19592
ATCC 23147
NBRC 102662
NCIMB 1420
SS2
Synonyms4
  • Herpetosiphon nigricans Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)
  • Lewinella nigricans (Lewin 1970) Sly et al. 1998

Flavilitoribacter nigricans is a bacterium from the family Lewinellaceae which has been isolated from beach sand near Lagos in Nigeria.1546 It is the only species in the genus Flavilitoribacter.7

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References

  1. Parte, A.C. "Lewinella". LPSN.
  2. García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Göker M (2019). "Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes". Front Microbiol. 10: 2083. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083. PMC 6767994. PMID 31608019.
  3. "Lewinella nigricans Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net. Archived from the original on 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  4. "Flavilitoribacter nigricans". www.uniprot.org.
  5. Parker, Charles Thomas; Osier, Nicole Danielle; Garrity, George M; Taylor, Dorothea (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Lewinella nigricans (Lewin 1970) Sly et al. 1998 emend. Khan et al. 2007". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.8245.
  6. "Details: DSM-23189". www.dsmz.de.
  7. Flavilitoribacter in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
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