Name: Nitrosophilus Shiotani et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.so.phi’lus. L. masc. adj. nitrosus, full of natron, here intended to mean nitrate and nitrous oxide; Gr. masc. adj. philos, loving, friendly to; N.L. masc. n. Nitrosophilus, nitrate- and nitrous-oxide-loving, referring to the use of nitrate and nitrous oxide as a sole electron acceptor

Gender: masculine (stem: Nitrosophil-)

Type species: Nitrosophilus alvini Shiotani et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Shiotani T, Mino S, Sato W, Nishikawa S, Yonezawa M, Sievert SM, Sawabe T. Nitrosophilus alvini gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogen-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the East Pacific Rise, inferred by a genome-based taxonomy of the phylum "Campylobacterota". PLoS One 2020; 15:e0241366.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 199. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4773.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrtosophilus".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Fukazawa et al. (2023). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 3; KCTC: 2; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
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
    Nitrosophilus alvini Shiotani et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitrosophilus kaiyonis Fukazawa et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitrosophilus labii (Fukushi et al. 2021) Shiotani et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Nitratiruptoraceae Waite et al. 2020

Assigned by: Shiotani T, Mino S, Sato W, Nishikawa S, Yonezawa M, Sievert SM, Sawabe T. Nitrosophilus alvini gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogen-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the East Pacific Rise, inferred by a genome-based taxonomy of the phylum "Campylobacterota". PLoS One 2020; 15:e0241366.

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