Name: Dehalospirillum Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.ha.lo.spi.ril.lum. L. prep. de, from; N.L. neut. n. halogenum, halogen [from Swedish, coined by Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848) from Gr. hals halos "salt" +-gen "to produce; " so called because a salt is formed in reactions involving these elements]; Gr. fem. n. speîra, a spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, a small spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. Dehalospirillum, a dehalogenating small spiral

Gender: neuter (stem: Dehalospirill-)

Type species: Dehalospirillum multivorans Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002

Effective publication: Scholz-Muramatsu H, Neumann A, Meßmer M, Moore E, Diekert G. Isolation and characterization of Dehalospirillum multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a tetrachloroetheneutilizing, strictly anaerobic bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1995; 163:48-56.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 88. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1915-1916.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Sulfurospirillum Schumacher et al. 1993

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sulfurospirillum Schumacher et al. 1993	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Sulfurospirillum Schumacher et al. 1993. Publication: Luijten ML, de Weert J, Smidt H, Boschker HT, de Vos WM, Schraa G, Stams AJ. Description of Sulfurospirillum halorespirans sp. nov., an anaerobic, tetrachloroethene-respiring bacterium, and transfer of Dehalospirillum multivorans to the genus Sulfurospirillum as Sulfurospirillum multivorans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:787-793.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Dehalospinllum".
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 2 and 4 September 2001, Freiburg, Germany. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2339-2341.
  • Dehalospirillum is the correct name if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01747 (N = 2).
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; JCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
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
    Dehalospirillum multivorans Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Campylobacteraceae Vandamme and De Ley 1991

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.

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