Bounagaea Meklat et al. 2015
General information
Name
Bounagaea
Valid publication
2015
Lineage
Root.
Bacteria.
Actinobacteria<P>.
Actinobacteria.
Bounagaea
Nomenclature type
Bounagaea algeriensis
Etymology
N.L. gen. masc. n. <i>bounagaea</i> of Bounaga, named in honour of the memory and untimely death of our late Professor Djilali Bounaga (1931–1980) of the Centre National de Recherche sur les Zones Arides (CNRZA), and also in honour of our Professor Nicole Bounaga-Riveill (CNRZA and URZA) for their broad contributions in teaching and training of researchers in the field of biology in Algeria.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Gram-stain positive, extremely halophilic, filamentous, aerobic actinobacteria. Diffusible pigments are not produced. Substrate hyphae are well developed and fragment with age into cocci-shaped elements. Forms aerial mycelium with long chains of non-motile, smooth-surfaced and oval or spherical spores. The cell wall contains meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diamino acid, and arabinose and galactose are present as major whole-cell sugars. The diagnostic phospholipid is phosphatidylcholine. The major fatty acids are anteiso-C17:0, iso-C15:0, iso-C17:0 and cis9 iso-C17:1. The predominant menaquinones are MK-9(H4), MK-9(H2) and MK-10(H2). Mycolic acids are not present. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of the type species is 71.3 mol%.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M020202000001001 | Bounagaea algeriensis | Species | 1476748 |
References
1
Meklat, A., Bouras, N., Mokrane, S., Zitouni, A., Schumann, P., Sproer, C., Klenk, H.-P., and Sabaou, N. Bounagaea algeriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic actinobacterium isolated from a Saharan soil of Algeria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2015) 108:473-482.[DOI:10.1007/s10482-015-0500-9]
[PMID:26050246]
2
Validation List No. 166. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2015) 65:3763-3767.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.000632]