Name: Ammonifex Huber and Stetter 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Am.mo.ni.fex. N.L. neut. n. ammonium, ammonium; L. masc. n. suff. -fex, maker; from L. inf. v. facere, to make; N.L. masc. n. Ammonifex, the ammonium-maker

Gender: masculine (stem: Ammonific-)

Type species: Ammonifex degensii Huber and Stetter 1996

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Huber R, Rossnagel P, Woese CR, Rachel R, Langworthy TA, Stetter KO. Formation of ammonium from nitrate during chemolithoautotrophic growth of the extremely thermophilic bacterium ammonifex degensii gen. nov. sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1996; 19:40-49.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 58. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:836-837.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Miroshnichenko et al. 2008 Miroshnichenko ML, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Kostrikina NA, Chernych N, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Ammonifex thiophilus sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic anaerobic bacterium from a Kamchatka hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2935-2938. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:452-453.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Ammonificaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Ammonificales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Thermoanaerobacteriaceae". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Ammonificaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Ammonificales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01639 (N = 1).
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Huber and Stetter) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Huber et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; VKM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ammonifex degensii Huber and Stetter 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ammonifex thiophilus Miroshnichenko et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010

Assigned by: Wiegel J. Family I. Thermoanaerobacteraceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 1225.

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