Genus Aciditerrimonas
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Aciditerrimonas Itoh et al. 2011, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Aciditerrimonas ferrireducens Itoh et al. 2011.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. acidum (from L. adj. acidus -a -um, sour) an acid; L. n. terra, soil; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Aciditerrimonas, acidic soil monad.
Valid publication: ITOH (T.), YAMANOI (K.), KUDO (T.), OHKUMA (M.) and TAKASHINA (T.): Aciditerrimonas ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., an iron-reducing thermoacidophilic actinobacterium isolated from a solfataric field. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 1281-1285.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Aciditerrimonas ferrireducens Itoh et al. 2011, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) IC-180 = DSM 45281 = JCM 15389.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB517669.
Etymology: L. n. ferrum, iron; L. part. adj. reducens, leading back, bringing back to a state or conditionand and, in chemistry, converting to a reduced oxidation state; N.L. part. adj. ferrireducens, iron-reducing.
Valid publication: ITOH (T.), YAMANOI (K.), KUDO (T.), OHKUMA (M.) and TAKASHINA (T.): Aciditerrimonas ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., an iron-reducing thermoacidophilic actinobacterium isolated from a solfataric field. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 1281-1285.
Original article in IJSEM Online