Name: Caldanaerobius Lee et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cald.an.ae.ro’bi.us. L. masc. adj. caldus, warm, hot; Gr. pref. an-, not (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. n. aêr, air; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. masc. n. Caldanaerobius, a bacterium which grows in the absence of air at high temperature

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Caldanaerobi-), kald-an-a͡e-RO-bi-us

Type species: Caldanaerobius fijiensis Lee et al. 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee YJ, Mackie RI, Cann IK, Wiegel J. Description of Caldanaerobius fijiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an inulin-degrading, ethanol-producing, thermophilic bacterium from a Fijian hot spring sediment, and reclassification of Thermoanaerobacterium polysaccharolyticum and Thermoanaerobacterium zeae as Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus comb. nov. and Caldanaerobius zeae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:666-670.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1273-1274.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Caldanaerobiaceae 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 family Caldanaerobiaceae 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 0.09167 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 3; DSM: 3.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Caldanaerobius fijiensis Lee et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus (Cann et al. 2001) Lee et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Caldanaerobius zeae (Cann et al. 2001) Lee et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010

Assigned by: Bouanane-Darenfed A, Fardeau ML, Gregoire P, Joseph M, Kebbouche-Gana S, Benayad T, Hacene H, Cayol JL, Ollivier B. Caldicoprobacter algeriensis sp. nov. a new thermophilic anaerobic, xylanolytic bacterium isolated from an Algerian hot spring. Curr Microbiol 2011; 62:826-832.

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