Genus Thermosulfurimonas
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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").
Thermosulfurimonas Slobodkin et al. 2012, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Thermosulfurimonas dismutans Slobodkin et al. 2012.
Etymology: Gr. adj. thermos, hot; L. n. sulfur, sulfur; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Thermosulfurimonas, thermophilic sulfur monad.
Valid publication: SLOBODKIN (A.I.), REYSENBACH (A.L.), SLOBODKINA (G.B.), BASLEROV (R.V.), KOSTRIKINA (N.A.), WAGNER (I.D.) and BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA (E.A.): Thermosulfurimonas dismutans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2012, 62, 2565-2571.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Thermosulfurimonas dismutans Slobodkin et al. 2012, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) S95 = DSM 24515 = VKM B-2683.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: JF346116.
Etymology: L. inseparable particle dis, in two; L. part. adj. mutans, altering, changing; N.L. part. adj. dismutans, dismutating, splitting.
Valid publication: SLOBODKIN (A.I.), REYSENBACH (A.L.), SLOBODKINA (G.B.), BASLEROV (R.V.), KOSTRIKINA (N.A.), WAGNER (I.D.) and BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA (E.A.): Thermosulfurimonas dismutans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2012, 62, 2565-2571.
Original article in IJSEM Online