Genus Thiolamprovum
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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").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Thiolamprovum Guyoneaud et al. 1998, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Thiolamprovum pedioforme (Eichler and Pfennig 1987) Guyoneaud et al. 1998.
Recommended three-letter abbreviation: Tlp. (see the file ¤ "Three-letter code for abbreviations of generic names").
Etymology: Gr. n. theion (Latin transliteration thium), sulfur; Gr. adj. lampros, bright, brilliant; L. neut. n. ovum, egg; N.L. neut. n. Thiolamprovum, bright egg with sulfur.
Valid publication: GUYONEAUD (R.), SÜLING (J.), PETRI (R.), MATHERON (R.), CAUMETTE (P.), PFENNIG (N.) and IMHOFF (J.F.): Taxonomic rearrangements of the genera Thiocapsa and Amoebobacter on the basis of 16S rDNA sequence analyses, and description of Thiolamprovum gen. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 957-964.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: The genus Thiolamprovum must be assigned to the neuter gender not to the masculine gender as cited in the paper by Guyoneaud et al. 1998.
Thiolamprovum pedioforme (Eichler and Pfennig 1987) Guyoneaud et al. 1998, comb. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) Taichung = CML2 = DSM 3802.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: Y12297.
Basonym: ¤ Amoebobacter pedioformis Eichler and Pfennig 1987.
Etymology: Gr. n. pedion, a plain, a flat area; L. adj. suffix -formis -is -e (from L. n. forma, figure, shape, appearance), -like, in the shape of; N.L. neut. adj. pedioforme, flat shaped.
Valid publication: GUYONEAUD (R.), SÜLING (J.), PETRI (R.), MATHERON (R.), CAUMETTE (P.), PFENNIG (N.) and IMHOFF (J.F.): Taxonomic rearrangements of the genera Thiocapsa and Amoebobacter on the basis of 16S rDNA sequence analyses, and description of Thiolamprovum gen. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 957-964.
Original article in IJSEM Online