Name: Persephonella Götz et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Per.se.pho.nel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Persephonella, little Persephone, after the Greek mythological goddess, who spent half of each year in the Underworld and the other half on Earth

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Persephonell-), per-se-p^ho-NEL-la

Type species: Persephonella marina Götz et al. 2002

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gotz D, Banta A, Beveridge TJ, Rushdi AI, Simoneit BR, Reysenbach AL. Persephonella marina gen. nov., sp. nov. and Persephonella guaymasensis sp. nov., two novel, thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing microaerophiles from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1349-1359.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

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: "Peresphonella".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.16944 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: OCM: 3; DSM: 3; JCM: 2; UBOCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Persephonella atlantica François et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Persephonella guaymasensis Götz et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Persephonella hydrogeniphila Nakagawa et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Persephonella marina Götz et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Hydrogenothermaceae Eder and Huber 2003

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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