Genus Oceanotoga

Name: Oceanotoga Jayasinghearachchi and Lal 2011

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: O.ce.a.no’to.ga. Gr. masc. n. Ôkeanos, the ocean; L. fem. n. toga, a covering, garment; N.L. fem. n. Oceanotoga, an ocean toga, referring to the isolation of the organism from the ocean and the presence of a ‘toga’sheath-like outer cover

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Oceanotog-), o-ke-a-NO-to-ga

Type species: Oceanotoga teriensis Jayasinghearachchi and Lal 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Jayasinghearachchi HS, Lal B. Oceanotoga teriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from offshore oil-producing wells. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:554-560. 🇮🇳

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1237-1238.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Thermotogaceae Reysenbach 2002. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; LMG: 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
    Oceanotoga teriensis Jayasinghearachchi and Lal 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Petrotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Assigned by: Bhandari V, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures for the phylum (class) Thermotogae and a proposal for its division into three orders (Thermotogales, Kosmotogales ord. nov. and Petrotogales ord. nov.) containing four families (Thermotogaceae, Fervidobacteriaceae fam. nov., Kosmotogaceae fam. nov. and Petrotogaceae fam. nov.) and a new genus Pseudothermotoga gen. nov. with five new combinations. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:143-168. 🇨🇦

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