Genus Caldimicrobium
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 2
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Caldimicrobium Miroshnichenko et al. 2009, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Caldimicrobium rimae Miroshnichenko et al. 2009.
Etymology: L. adj. caldus, hot; N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Caldimicrobium, microbe living in hot places.
Valid publication: MIROSHNICHENKO (M.L.), LEBEDINSKY (A.V.), CHERNYH (N.A.), TOUROVA (T.P.), KOLGANOVA (T.V.), SPRING (S.) and BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA (E.A.): Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively lithoautotrophic, anaerobic bacterium from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 1040-1044.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Caldimicrobium Miroshnichenko et al. 2009 emend. Kojima et al. 2016.
Reference: KOJIMA, H., UMEZAWA, K. and FUKUI, M. 2016. Caldimicrobium thiodismutans sp. nov., a sulfur-disproportionating bacterium isolated from a hot spring, and emended description of the genus Caldimicrobium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 1828-1831.
Original article.
Caldimicrobium rimae Miroshnichenko et al. 2009, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) DS = DSM 19393 = VKM B-2460.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: EF554596.
Etymology: L. gen. n. rimae, of a crack or fissure, referring to the English translation of Treshchinnyi, the hot spring from which the type strain was isolated.
Valid publication: MIROSHNICHENKO (M.L.), LEBEDINSKY (A.V.), CHERNYH (N.A.), TOUROVA (T.P.), KOLGANOVA (T.V.), SPRING (S.) and BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA (E.A.): Caldimicrobium rimae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively lithoautotrophic, anaerobic bacterium from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 1040-1044.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Caldimicrobium thiodismutans Kojima et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) TF1=DSM 29380=NBRC 110713.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: LC055107.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: Gr. n. theion, sulfur; L. part. dis, in two; L. pres. part. mutans, altering; N.L. part. adj. thiodismutans, dismutating sulfur.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: KOJIMA, H., UMEZAWA, K. and FUKUI, M. 2016. Caldimicrobium thiodismutans sp. nov., a sulfur-disproportionating bacterium isolated from a hot spring, and emended description of the genus Caldimicrobium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 1828-1831.
Original article in IJSEM Online