Methylotuvimicrobium crucis sp. nov.
Submitted by Butarelli, Ana Carolina
Species Methylotuvimicrobium crucis
- Etymology
- [cru'cis] L. gen. n. crucis, of the cross, referring to the Alpha Crucis carbonate mound and the constellation Crux
- Nomenclatural type
- NCBI Assembly: GCA_050611825.1 Ts
- Description
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The species name crucis refers to the Alpha Crucis carbonate mound, a deep-sea site in the South Atlantic Ocean. The enrichment was cultivated from methanotrophic microbial consortia in sediments collected at this location. The name also alludes to the Southern Cross constellation (Crux), under which the site is located.
- Classification
- Bacteria » Pseudomonadota » Gammaproteobacteria » Methylococcales » Methylococcaceae » Methylotuvimicrobium » Methylotuvimicrobium crucis
- References
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Effective publication:
Butarelli et al., 2025 [1]
- Registry URL
- https://seqco.de/i:49843
References
- Butarelli et al. (2025). Genomic insights into a versatile deep-sea methanotroph constituting the rare biosphere of a Brazilian carbonate mound complex. mSystems. DOI:10.1128/msystems.01311-25
Register List Certificate of Validation
On behalf of the Committee on the Systematics of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (SeqCode Committee), we hereby certify that the Register List seqco.de/r:fyenbi4b submitted by Butarelli, Ana Carolina and including 1 new name has been successfully validated.
Date of Priority:
2025-12-23 02:39 UTC
DOI: 10.57973/seqcode.r:fyenbi4b
