Name: Desulfotomaculum Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fo.to.ma.cu.lum. L. prep. de, from; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); L. neut. n. tomaculum, a kind of sausage; N.L. neut. n. Desulfotomaculum, a sausage-shaped sulfate reducer

Gender: neuter (stem: Desulfotomacul-)

Type species: Desulfotomaculum nigrificans (Werkman and Weaver 1927) Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Campbell LL, Postgate JR. Classification of the spore-forming sulfate-reducing bacteria. Bacteriol Rev 1965; 29:359-363.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Widdel and Pfennig 1977 Widdel F, Pfennig N. A new anaerobic, sporing, acetate-oxidizing, sulfate-reducing bacterium, Desulfotomaculum (emend.) acetoxidans. Arch Microbiol 1977; 112:119-122.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • 🧍 As of 2023-10-12 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Desulfotomaculia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020. Publication: 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Desulfotomaculales" Watanabe et al. 2019. Publication: Watanabe M, Fukui M, Kuever J. Desulfocucumaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NNe (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2019, p. 1-2.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Desulfotomaculales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the class Desulfotomaculia Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Desulfotomaculales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt (2014) assigned this genus to the family Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020. Publication: 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.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Werkman CH, Weaver HJ. Studies in the bacteriology of suphur stinker spoilage of canned sweet corn. Iowa State Journal of Science 1927; 2:57-67.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Daulfotomaculum"; "Dcsulfolomaculuni"; "Dcsulfotomaculum"; "Desdfotomaculum"; "Desufotomaculum"; "Desugotomaculum"; "Desulfatomaculum"; "Desulfolomaculum"; "Desulforomaculum"; "Desulfotamaculum"; "Desulfotoinaculurn"; "Desulfotomacilum"; "Desulfotomacuium"; "Desulfotomaculm"; "Desulfotomacumum"; "Desulfotomaeulum"; "Desulfotomakulum"; "Desulfotommulum"; "Desulfotomnaculum"; "Desulfotomuculum"; "Desulfotoniaculum"; "Desulftotomaculum"; "Desuljotomaculum"; "Desultotomaculum"; "Desuvotomaculum"; "Deszdfotomaculum"; "Drsulfotomaculum"; "Duulfotomaculum"; "Llemlfotomaculum".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kaksonen et al. (2008). 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: 34; ATCC: 12; JCM: 10; NBRC: 9; VKM: 6; KCTC: 4; NCIMB: 3; IFO: 1; CIP: 1; MCCC: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "DSMC" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 36
Total number of child taxa: 38

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans Widdel and Pfennig 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum aeronauticum Hagenauer et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum alcoholivorax Kaksonen et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum alkaliphilum Pikuta et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum antarcticum (ex Iizuka et al. 1969) Campbell and Singleton 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfotomaculum aquiferis Berlendis et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum arcticum Vandieken et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum auripigmentum Newman et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum australicum Love et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans Parshina et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Desulfotomaculum copahuensis" Willis Poratti et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Desulfotomaculum defluvii Krishnamurthi et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfotomaculum ferrireducens Yang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum geothermicum Daumas et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum gibsoniae Kuever et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum guttoideum Gogotova and Vainstein 1986	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum halophilum Tardy-Jacquenod et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum hydrothermale Haouari et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum intricatum Watanabe et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii Nazina et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum luciae Liu et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum nigrificans (Werkman and Weaver 1927) Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfotomaculum orientis Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum peckii Jabari et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum profundi Berlendis et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum putei Liu et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum reducens Visser et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum ruminis Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Desulfotomaculum salinum" Nazina et al. 2005	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Desulfotomaculum sapomandens Cord-Ruwisch and Garcia 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum solfataricum Goorissen et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum thermoacetoxidans Min and Zinder 1995	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum thermobenzoicum Tasaki et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum thermocisternum Nilsen et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum thermosapovorans Fardeau et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum thermosubterraneum Kaksonen et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum tongense Cha et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desulfotomaculum varum Ogg and Patel 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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.

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