Name: Ottowia pentelensis Felföldi et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pen.te.len’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. pentelensis, of or belonging to Pentele, referring to the traditional local name of Dunaújváros from where the inoculating sludge of the laboratory-scale activated sludge system was collected, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 21699; NCAIM B.02336; RB3-7

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16S rRNA gene: EU518930 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Felfoldi T, Keki Z, Sipos R, Marialigeti K, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Toth EM. Ottowia pentelensis sp. nov., a floc-forming betaproteobacterium isolated from an activated sludge system treating coke plant effluent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2146-2150.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2797-2798.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Ottowia Spring et al. 2004

Assigned by: Felfoldi T, Keki Z, Sipos R, Marialigeti K, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Toth EM. Ottowia pentelensis sp. nov., a floc-forming betaproteobacterium isolated from an activated sludge system treating coke plant effluent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2146-2150.

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Record number: 789435