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Opitutus terrae

species of bacterium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ18357789 ↗
Source-derived summary

Opitutus terrae is an obligately anaerobic (cannot grow in the presence of oxygen) bacterium first isolated from rice paddy soil, hence its epithet. It is coccus-shaped and is motile by means of a flagellum. Its type strain is PB90-1T (= DSM 11246T). Its genome has been sequenced.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Opitutus terrae” as species of bacterium. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 47-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Opitutus, terrae and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of bacterium. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18357789. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Opitutus terrae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.