Name: Desulfonatronospira Sorokin et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fo.na.tro.no.spi’ra. L. prep. de, from; N.L. pref. sulfo-, pertaining to sulfur (in compound words); from N.L. masc. n. sulfas (gen. sulfatis), sulfate; N.L. neut. n. natron, soda, sodium carbonate (arbitrarily derived from the Arabic n. natrun or natron); N.L. neut. n. natronum, pertaining to soda; Gr. fem. n. speîra, a spire; N.L. fem. n. Desulfonatronospira, desulfurizing soda-loving spirillum

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Desulfonatronospir-), de-sul-fo-na-tro-no-SPI-ra

Type species: Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans Sorokin et al. 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Henstra AM, Stams AJM, Galinski EA, Muyzer G. Sulfidogenesis under extremely haloalkaline conditions by Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Desulfonatronospira delicata sp. nov. - a novel lineage of Deltaproteobacteria from hypersaline soda lakes. Microbiology (Reading) 2008; 154:1444-1453.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 122. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1511-1512.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Sorokin et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the family Desulfohalobiaceae Kuever et al. 2006. Publication: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Henstra AM, Stams AJM, Galinski EA, Muyzer G. Sulfidogenesis under extremely haloalkaline conditions by Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Desulfonatronospira delicata sp. nov. - a novel lineage of Deltaproteobacteria from hypersaline soda lakes. Microbiology (Reading) 2008; 154:1444-1453.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desulfonatrospira".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; UNIQEM: 3.
  • 🧍 In the protologue of the effective publication, the type species is erroneously cited as Desulfonatronospira dismutans. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 122. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1511-1512.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfonatronospira delicata Sorokin et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfonatronospira sulfatiphila Sorokin and Chernyh 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans Sorokin et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Desulfonatronovibrionaceae Waite et al. 2020

Assigned by: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.

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