Name: Ignicoccus Huber et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ig.ni.coc’cus. L. masc. n. ignis, fire (also as genitive); Gr. masc. n. kokkos, berry; N.L. masc. n. Ignicoccus, the berry of the fire

Gender: masculine (stem: Ignicocc-)

Type species: Ignicoccus islandicus Huber et al. 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Huber H, Burggraf S, Mayer T, Wyschkony I, Rachel R, Stetter KO. Ignicoccus gen. nov., a novel genus of hyperthermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic Archaea, represented by two new species, Ignicoccus islandicus sp nov and Ignicoccus pacificus sp nov. and Ignicoccus pacificus sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:2093-2100.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:267-268.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Ignicoccaceae" Rinke et al. 2021. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Ignicoccaceae 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 family Ignicoccaceae 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Igniococcus"; "Ignococcus"; "Jgnicoccus".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ATCC: 2; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Complete authorship reads: Huber, Burggraf and Stetter 2000 in Huber, Burggraf, Mayer, Wyschkony, Rachel and Stetter 2000.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ignicoccus hospitalis Paper et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ignicoccus islandicus Huber et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ignicoccus pacificus Huber and Stetter 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983

Assigned by: Huber H, Burggraf S, Mayer T, Wyschkony I, Rachel R, Stetter KO. Ignicoccus gen. nov., a novel genus of hyperthermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic Archaea, represented by two new species, Ignicoccus islandicus sp nov and Ignicoccus pacificus sp nov. and Ignicoccus pacificus sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:2093-2100.

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