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Methanoculleus bourgensis, Methanoculleus olentangyi and Methanoculleus oldenburgensis are subjective synonyms

Susumu Asakawa and Kazunari Nagaoka

Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, Kyushu National Agricultural Experiment Station, Nishigoshi, Kumamoto 861-1192, Japan

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Susumu Asakawa
asakawa{at}agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Methanoculleus bourgensis, Methanoculleus olentangyi and Methanoculleus oldenburgensis are subjective synonyms on the basis of phenotypic, genotypic and phylogenetic characteristics. Methanoculleus bourgensis must be the name of the united species because it is the type of the genus Methanoculleus.

The DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL accession number for the 16S rDNA sequence of Methanoculleus oldenburgensis CB-1^T is AB065298.

Present address: Soil Biology and Chemistry, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.

Present address: National Agricultural Research Center, Tsukuba 305-8666, Japan.

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