Name: Hydrogenobaculum Stöhr et al. 2001

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: 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. v. gennaô, to produce; L. neut. n. baculum, small rod; N.L. neut. n. Hydrogenobaculum, water-producing small rod

Gender: neuter

Type species: Hydrogenobaculum acidophilum (Shima and Suzuki 1993) Stöhr et al. 2001

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Stohr R, Waberski A, Volker H, Tindall BJ, Thomm M. Hydrogenothermus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium, recognition of Calderobacterium hydrogenophilum as a member of the genus Hydrogenobacter and proposal of the reclassification of Hydrogenobacter acidophilus as Hydrogenobaculum acidophilum gen. nov., comb. nov., in the phylum 'Hydrogenobacter/Aquifex'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1853-1862.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Hydrogenobacter Kawasumi et al. 1984. Publication: Shima S, Suzuki KI. Hydrogenobacter acidophilus sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, aerobic, hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium requiring elemental sulfur for growth. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1993; 43:703-708.
  • In the paper by Stöhr et al. 2001, Hydrogenobaculum is cited as Hydrogenobaculum (ex Shima and Suzuki 1993) Stöhr et al. 2001.

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
    Hydrogenobaculum acidophilum (Shima and Suzuki 1993) Stöhr et al. 2001	validly published	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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