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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Anaerophilus

Name: Anaerophilus Zhang et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: An.a.e.ro’phi.lus. Gr. pref. an-, not (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. n. aêr, air; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. n. Anaerophilus, not air-loving

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Anaerophil-), an-a-e-RO-phi-lus

Type species: Anaerophilus nitritigenes corrig. Zhang et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Zhang R, Zeng Y, Wang TQ, Wang XM, Shi YY, Zou JT, Sun C, Zhang GS, Zhang WY, Wu M. Anaerophilus nitritogenes gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from salt lake sediment in Xinjiang Province, China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:417-425. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

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: 2

Parent taxon: Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Zhang R, Zeng Y, Wang TQ, Wang XM, Shi YY, Zou JT, Sun C, Zhang GS, Zhang WY, Wu M. Anaerophilus nitritogenes gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from salt lake sediment in Xinjiang Province, China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:417-425. 🇨🇳

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Record number: 67866
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