Name: Caldivirga Itoh et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cal.di.vir’ga. L. masc. adj. caldus, hot; L. fem. n. virga, rod; N.L. fem. n. Caldivirga, a hot rod

Gender: feminine (stem: Caldivirg-)

Type species: Caldivirga maquilingensis Itoh et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Valid publication: Itoh T, Suzuki K, Sanchez PC, Nakase T. Caldivirga maquilingensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of rod-shaped crenarchaeote isolated from a hot spring in the Philippines. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1157-1163.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1327-1328.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Thermocladiaceae 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.
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the family "Thermocladiaceae" Rinke et al. 2021. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Caldirvirga".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🧍 The Latin noun virga ae (a twig) is in the feminine gender. So, according to Rule 65 (2), the genus name Caldivirga is in the feminine gender, not in the masculine gender (sic). Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Caldivirga maquilingensis Itoh et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermoproteaceae Zillig and Stetter 1982

Assigned by: Itoh T, Suzuki K, Sanchez PC, Nakase T. Caldivirga maquilingensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of rod-shaped crenarchaeote isolated from a hot spring in the Philippines. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1157-1163.

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