Name: Caldicellulosiruptor Rainey et al. 1995
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: masculine (stem: Caldicellulosiruptor-)
Type species: Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus Rainey et al. 1995
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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
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: 14
Parent taxon: Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993
Assigned by: 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.
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