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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Desulfocurvus

Name: Desulfocurvus Klouche et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fo.cur’vus. L. prep. de, from; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); N.L. pref. desulfo-, desulfuricating, used to characterize a dissimilatory sulfate-reducing prokaryote (in compound words); L. masc. adj. curvus, curved; N.L. masc. n. Desulfocurvus, a curved sulfate-reducing bacterium

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Desulfocurv-), de-sul-fo-KUR-wus

Type species: Desulfocurvus vexinensis Klouche et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Klouche N, Basso O, Lascourreges JF, Cayol JL, Thomas P, Fauque G, Fardeau ML, Magot M. Desulfocurvus vexinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep subsurface aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:3100-3104.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:473-474.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

Parent taxon: Desulfovibrionaceae Kuever et al. 2006

Assigned by: Klouche N, Basso O, Lascourreges JF, Cayol JL, Thomas P, Fauque G, Fardeau ML, Magot M. Desulfocurvus vexinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep subsurface aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:3100-3104.

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Record number: 517928
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