Name: Desulforhopalus Isaksen and Teske 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fo.rho’pa.lus. L. prep. de, from; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); N.L. pref. desulfo-, desulfuricating (prefix used to characterize a dissimilatory sulfate-reducing procaryote) (in compound words); N.L. masc. n. rhopalus, cudgel [incorrectly formed: should be neuter: from Gr. neut. n. rhopalon]; N.L. masc. n. Desulforhopalus, cudgel-formed sulfate reducer

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Desulforhopal-), de-sul-fo-RHO-pa-lus

Type species: Desulforhopalus vacuolatus Isaksen and Teske 1999

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Isaksen MF, Teske A. Desulforhopalus vacuolatus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new moderately psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium with gas vacuoles isolated from a temperate estuary. Arch. Microbiol. 1996; 166:160-168. 🇩🇰

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 70. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:935-936.

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: Desulfocapsaceae Waite et al. 2020

Assigned by: Aronson HS, Thomas C, Bhattacharyya MK, Eckstein SR, Jensen SR, Barco RA, Macalady JL, Amend JP. Thiovibrio frasassiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an autotrophic, elemental sulphur disproportionating bacterium isolated from sulphidic karst sediment, and proposal of Thiovibrionaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6003. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 517024
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