Genus "Desulfosporomusa"

Name: "Desulfosporomusa" Sass et al. 2004

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fo.spo.ro.mu’sa. L. prep. de, off; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); N.L. masc. adj. suff. -sporus, spore; N.L. fem. n. musa, banana; N.L. fem. n. Desulfosporomusa, meaning sulfate-reducing and spore-bearing banana

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Desulfosporomus-), de-sul-fo-spo-ro-MU-sa

Type species: "Desulfosporomusa polytropa" Sass et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Sass H, Overmann J, Rutters H, Babenzien HD, Cypionka H. Desulfosporomusa polytropa gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium from sediments of an oligotrophic lake. Arch Microbiol 2004; 182:204-211. 🇬🇧

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Marchandin et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the order Selenomonadales Marchandin et al. 2010. Publication: Marchandin H, Teyssier C, Campos J, Jean-Pierre H, Roger F, Gay B, Carlier JP, Jumas-Bilak E. Negativicoccus succinicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human clinical samples, emended description of the family Veillonellaceae and description of Negativicutes classis nov., Selenomonadales ord. nov. and Acidaminococcaceae fam. nov. in the bacterial phylum Firmicutes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1271-1279. 🇫🇷
  • 🧕 Sass et al. (2004) assigned this genus to the phylum "Firmicutes" (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Sass H, Overmann J, Rutters H, Babenzien HD, Cypionka H. Desulfosporomusa polytropa gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium from sediments of an oligotrophic lake. Arch Microbiol 2004; 182:204-211. 🇬🇧
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 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: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Desulfosporomusa polytropa" Sass et al. 2004	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Bacillota, not assigned to family]

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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