Name: Caldicellulosiruptor Rainey et al. 1995

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cal.di.cel.lu.lo.si.rup’tor. L. masc. adj. caldus, hot; N.L. neut. n. cellulosum, cellulose; L. masc. n. ruptor, breaker; N.L. masc. n. Caldicellulosiruptor, cellulose-breaker living under hot conditions

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Caldicellulosiruptor-), kal-di-kel-lu-lo-si-RUP-tor

Type species: Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus Rainey et al. 1995

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Rainey FA, Donnison AM, Janssen PH, Saul D, Rodrigo A, Bergquist PL, Daniel RM, Stackebrandt E, Morgan HW. Description of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov: an obligately anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1994; 120:263-266. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 52. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:197-198.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 15

Parent taxon: Caldicellulosiruptoraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Assigned by: 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. 🇦🇺

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