Name: Desulfosporosinus Stackebrandt et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fos.po.ro’si.nus. L. prep. de, from; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); from Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed; L. masc. n. sinus, bend (also as genitive); N.L. masc. n. Desulfosporosinus, a spore-forming curved (organism) that reduces sulfur compounds

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Desulfosporosin-), de-sul-fos-po-RO-si-nus

Type species: Desulfosporosinus orientis (Campbell and Postgate 1965) Stackebrandt et al. 1997

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Stackebrandt E, Sproer C, Rainey FA, Burghardt J, Pauker O, Hippe H. Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Desulfotomaculum: evidence for the misclassification of Desulfotomaculum guttoideum and description of Desulfotomaculum orientis as Desulfosporosinus orientis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1134-1139. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:329-330.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Robertson et al. 2001 Robertson WJ, Bowman JP, Franzmann PD, Mee BJ. Desulfosporosinus meridiei sp. nov., a spore-forming sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from gasolene-contaminated groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:133-140. 🇦🇺 Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:269.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Stackebrandt et al. 2003 Stackebrandt E, Schumann P, Schuler E, Hippe H. Reclassification of Desulfotomaculum auripigmentum as Desulfosporosinus auripigmenti corrig., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1439-1443. 🇩🇪 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Vatsurina et al. 2008 Vatsurina A, Badrutdinova D, Schumann P, Spring S, Vainshtein M. Desulfosporosinus hippei sp. nov., a mesophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from permafrost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1228-1232. 🇷🇺 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1783-1784.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Watanabe et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the family Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Watanabe M, Kojima H, Fukui M. Desulfotomaculum intricatum sp. nov., a sulfate reducer isolated from freshwater lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3574-3578. 🇯🇵
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Desulfotomaculum Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Campbell LL, Postgate JR. Classification of the spore-forming sulfate-reducing bacteria. Bacteriol Rev 1965; 29:359-363.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desulfosporinus"; "Desulfosporosi"; "Desulfosporosus"; "Desulfotosporosinus".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Karnachuk et al. (2025). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 14; JCM: 9; ATCC: 5; VKM: 5; NCIMB: 2; SYSU: 1; GDMCC: 1; KCTC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 15
Total number of child taxa: 19

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfosporosinus acididurans Sánchez-Andrea et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus Alazard et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Desulfosporosinus acidophilus" Johnson et al. 2009	not validly published	preferred name
    Desulfosporosinus auripigmenti corrig. (Newman et al. 2000) Stackebrandt et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus auripigmentum (Newman et al. 2000) Stackebrandt et al. 2003	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Desulfosporosinus burensis Mayeux et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus cupriresistens Karnachuk et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus fructosivorans Vandieken et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus hippei Vatsurina et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Desulfosporosinus infrequens" Hausmann et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Desulfosporosinus lacus Ramamoorthy et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus meridiei Robertson et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus metallidurans Panova et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus nitroreducens Vandieken et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus orientis (Campbell and Postgate 1965) Stackebrandt et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus paludis Dyksma et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Desulfosporosinus sediminicola" Jiang et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Desulfosporosinus shakirovi Eskova et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosporosinus youngiae Lee et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020

Assigned by: Stackebrandt E. The emended family Peptococcaceae and description of the families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong E, Lory S, Stacke- brandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes., Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014, p. 286-290. 🇩🇪

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