Etymology:
A.ci.di.thi.o.ba.cil’lus. L. masc. adj.acidus, sour; Gr. neut. n.theîon, sulfur; L. masc. n.bacillus, a small rod; N.L. masc. n.Acidithiobacillus, acid-loving sulfur rodlet
Valid publication:
Kelly DP, Wood AP. Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:511-516.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:951-953.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Hallberg et al. 2010
Hallberg KB, Gonzalez-Toril E, Johnson DB. Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans, sp. nov.; facultatively anaerobic, psychrotolerant iron-, and sulfur-oxidizing acidophiles isolated from metal mine-impacted environments. Extremophiles 2010; 14:9-19.
Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 12. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1482-1483. Notes:
Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
Notes:
Nomenclatural type of the class Acidithiobacillia Williams and Kelly 2013.Publication:
Williams KP, Kelly DP. Proposal for a new class within the phylum Proteobacteria, Acidithiobacillia classis nov., with the type order Acidithiobacillales, and emended description of the class Gammaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2901-2906.
Nomenclatural type of the family Acidithiobacillaceae Garrity et al. 2005.Publication:
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Acidithiobacillaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 60.
Nomenclatural type of the order Acidithiobacillales Garrity et al. 2005.Publication:
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order II. Acidithiobacillales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 60.
Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this genus to the class "Chromatiia" Cavalier-Smith 2020.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
Williams and Kelly (2013) assigned this genus to the class Acidithiobacillia Williams and Kelly 2013.Publication:
Williams KP, Kelly DP. Proposal for a new class within the phylum Proteobacteria, Acidithiobacillia classis nov., with the type order Acidithiobacillales, and emended description of the class Gammaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2901-2906.
The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Parker CD. The corrosion of concrete. I. The isolation of a species of bacterium associated with the corrosion of concrete exposed to atmosphere containing hydrogen sulphide. Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science 1945; 23:81-90.
The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Waksman SA, Joffe JS. Microorganisms Concerned in the Oxidation of Sulfur in the Soil: II. Thiobacillus Thiooxidans, a New Sulfur-oxidizing Organism Isolated from the Soil. J Bacteriol 1922; 7:239-256.
This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Acicithiobacillus"; "Acidithiobacilllus"; "Acidothiobacillus"; "Ithiobacillus".
The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Norris et al. (2020). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 10; ATCC: 7; JCM: 5; CIP: 2; NCIMB: 2; KCTC: 1.
See Boden and Hutt (2019) for a taxonomic overview of the genus.Publication:
Boden R, Hutt LP. Acidithiobacillus. In: Unknown e (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2019, p. 1-19.
The distinct name Thermithiobacillus from the same publication has a similar spelling.Publication:
Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10 Total number of child taxa: 11
Assigned by:
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Acidithiobacillaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 60.
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