Name: Acidiferrobacter Hallberg et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ci.di.fer.ro.bac’ter. L. neut. adj. acidum, an acid; from L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; L. neut. n. ferrum, iron; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Acidiferrobacter, an acid-loving, ferrous iron-oxidizing rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Acidiferrobacter-), a-ki-di-fer-ro-BAK-ter

Type species: Acidiferrobacter thiooxydans Hallberg et al. 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hallberg KB, Hedrich S, Johnson DB. Acidiferrobacter thiooxydans, gen. nov. sp. nov.; an acidophilic, thermo-tolerant, facultatively anaerobic iron- and sulfur-oxidizer of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae. Extremophiles 2011; 15:271-279. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 142. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2563-2565.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Acidiferrobacteraceae Kojima et al. 2015. Publication: Kojima H, Shinohara A, Fukui M. Sulfurifustis variabilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from a lake, and proposal of Acidiferrobacteraceae fam. nov. and Acidiferrobacterales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3709-3713. 🇯🇵
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Acidiferrobacterales Kojima et al. 2015. Publication: Kojima H, Shinohara A, Fukui M. Sulfurifustis variabilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from a lake, and proposal of Acidiferrobacteraceae fam. nov. and Acidiferrobacterales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3709-3713. 🇯🇵
  • 🧕 Kojima et al. (2015) assigned this genus to the order Acidiferrobacterales Kojima et al. 2015. Publication: Kojima H, Shinohara A, Fukui M. Sulfurifustis variabilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from a lake, and proposal of Acidiferrobacteraceae fam. nov. and Acidiferrobacterales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3709-3713. 🇯🇵
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Acidiferribacter"; "Acidiferrobacteria".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acidiferrobacter thiooxydans Hallberg et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Acidiferrobacteraceae Kojima et al. 2015

Assigned by: Kojima H, Shinohara A, Fukui M. Sulfurifustis variabilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from a lake, and proposal of Acidiferrobacteraceae fam. nov. and Acidiferrobacterales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3709-3713. 🇯🇵

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