Roseofilum reptotaenium
| Roseofilum reptotaenium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteria |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| Order: | Oscillatoriales |
| Family: | Coleofasciculaceae |
| Genus: | Roseofilum |
| Species: | R. reptotaenium
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| Binomial name | |
| Roseofilum reptotaenium D. Casamatta, D. Stanic, M. Gantar, & L.L. Richardson, 2012[1]
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Roseofilum reptotaenium, also called coral killer, is a unicellular species of cyanobacteria. It is the pathogenic agent responsible for black band disease on Siderastrea siderea coral.[2][3]
References
- ^ Casamatta, Dale; Stanić, Dina; Gantar, Miroslav; Richardson, Laurie L. (2012-09-01). "Characterization of Roseofilum reptotaenium (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) gen. et sp. nov. isolated from Caribbean black band disease". Phycologia. 51 (5): 489–499. doi:10.2216/11-10.1. ISSN 0031-8884.
- ^ Sardet, Christian (5 June 2015). Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World. Edited by Rafael D. Rosengarten and Theodore Rosengarten. Translated from French by Christian Sardet and Dana Sardet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780226188713. OCLC 889996855.
- ^ "Species: Roseofilum reptotaenium". lpsn.dsmz.de. Retrieved 2020-09-25.