Name: Geotoga Davey et al. 1993

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ge.o’to.ga. Gr. fem. n. gê, earth; L. fem. n. toga, Roman outer garment; N.L. fem. n. Geotoga, the earth outer garment

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Geotog-), ge-O-to-ga

Type species: Geotoga petraea Davey et al. 1993

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Davey ME, Wood WA, Key R, Nakamura K, Stahl D. Isolation of three species of Geotoga and Petrotoga: two new genera, representing a new lineage in the bacterial line of descent distantly related to the "Thermotogales". Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1993; 16:191-200.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 47. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:864-865.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Thermotogaceae Reysenbach 2002. Publication: Reysenbach A-L. Family I. Thermotogaceae fam. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 370-387.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gectcga"; "Gectoga"; "Geoteoga".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Geotoga aestuarianus" Ben-Hania et al. 2011	not validly published	preferred name
    Geotoga petraea Davey et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Geotoga subterranea Davey et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Petrotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Assigned by: Bhandari V, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures for the phylum (class) Thermotogae and a proposal for its division into three orders (Thermotogales, Kosmotogales ord. nov. and Petrotogales ord. nov.) containing four families (Thermotogaceae, Fervidobacteriaceae fam. nov., Kosmotogaceae fam. nov. and Petrotogaceae fam. nov.) and a new genus Pseudothermotoga gen. nov. with five new combinations. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:143-168.

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