Etymology:De.sul.fo.ta’le.a.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); L. fem. n.talea, a slender staff, a rod; N.L. fem. n.Desulfotalea, a sulfate-reducing rod
Valid publication:
Knoblauch C, Sahm K, Jorgensen BB. Psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from permanently cold arctic marine sediments: description of Desulfofrigus oceanense gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfofrigus fragile sp. nov., Desulfofaba gelida gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfotalea psychrophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and Desulfotalea arctica sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1631-1643. 🇩🇪
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 2000; 50:5-7.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Notes:
🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Desulfobacteraceae".Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Desulfobulbaceae Kuever et al. 2006.Publication:
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family II. Desulfobulbaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 988. 🇺🇸
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desuffutalea"; "Desulfolatea".
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2.
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