Name: Hydrogenivirga Nakagawa et al. 2004
Etymology: Hy.dro.ge.ni.vir.ga. N.L. neut. n. hydrogenum, hydrogen (that which produces water, so called because it forms water when exposed to oxygen); from Gr. neut. n. hydôr, water; from Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; L. fem. n. virga, a slender green branch, a twig, rod; N.L. fem. n. Hydrogenivirga, hydrogen rod
Gender: feminine (stem: Hydrogenivirg-)
Type species: Hydrogenivirga caldilitoris Nakagawa et al. 2004
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Nakagawa S, Nakamura S, Inagaki F, Takai K, Shirai N, Sako Y. Hydrogenivirga caldilitoris gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a coastal hydrothermal field. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2079-2084.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:551-554.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Hydrogenivirga caldilitoris Nakagawa et al. 2004 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Hydrogenivirga okinawensis Nunoura et al. 2008 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Parent taxon: Aquificaceae Reysenbach 2002
Assigned by:
Gupta RS, Lali R. Molecular signatures for the phylum Aquificae and its different clades: proposal for division of the phylum Aquificae into the emended order Aquificales, containing the families Aquificaceae and Hydrogenothermaceae, and a new order Desulfurobacteriales ord. nov., containing the family Desulfurobacteriaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:349-368.
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Record number: 515819