Genus Athalassotoga
Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).
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").
Athalassotoga Itoh et al. 2016, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Athalassotoga saccharophila Itoh et al. 2016.
Etymology: Gr. prefix a, not; Gr. fem. n. thalassa, sea; L. fem. n. toga, Roman outer garment, toga; N. L. fem. n. Athalassotoga, a non-sea, or terrestrial, occurring toga.
Valid publication: ITOH, T., ONISHI, M., KATO, S., IINO, T., SAKAMOTO, M., KUDO, T., TAKASHINA, T. and OHKUMA, M. 2016. Athalassotoga saccharophila gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and proposal of Mesoaciditogales ord. nov. and Mesoaciditogaceae fam. nov. in the phylum Thermotogae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 1045-1051.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Athalassotoga saccharophila Itoh et al. 2016, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) NAS-01=JCM 19762=DSM 28954.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB898788.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Etymology: Gr. n. sakchar, - aros sugar; N.L. adj. philus, -a, -um (from Gr. adj. philos, -ê - on),, friend, loving; N.L. fem. adj. saccharophila, sugar-loving.
Source: Environmental - freshwater.
Valid publication: ITOH, T., ONISHI, M., KATO, S., IINO, T., SAKAMOTO, M., KUDO, T., TAKASHINA, T. and OHKUMA, M. 2016. Athalassotoga saccharophila gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and proposal of Mesoaciditogales ord. nov. and Mesoaciditogaceae fam. nov. in the phylum Thermotogae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 1045-1051.
Original article in IJSEM Online