Name: Haematospirillum Humrighouse et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Hae.ma.to.spi.ril’lum. Gr. neut. n. haîma (gen. haîmatos), blood; Gr. fem. n. speîra, a spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, a small spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. Haematospirillum, a small spiral from blood

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Haematospirill-), ha͡e-ma-to-spi-RIL-lum

Type species: Haematospirillum jordaniae Humrighouse et al. 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Humrighouse BW, Emery BD, Kelly AJ, Metcalfe MG, Mbizo J, McQuiston JR. Erratum to: Haematospirillum jordaniae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human blood samples. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:895-896.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 171. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3761-3764.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Koziaeva et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Novispirillaceae Koziaeva et al. 2023. Publication: Koziaeva VV, Sorokin DY, Kolganova TV, Grouzdev DS. Magnetospirillum sulfuroxidans sp. nov., capable of sulfur-dependent lithoautotrophy and a taxonomic reevaluation of the order Rhodospirillales. Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126406.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Matospirillum".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Haematospirillum jordaniae Humrighouse et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Humrighouse BW, Emery BD, Kelly AJ, Metcalfe MG, Mbizo J, McQuiston JR. Erratum to: Haematospirillum jordaniae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human blood samples. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:895-896.

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Record number: 518877