Name: Phorcysia Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Phor.cy’si.a. N.L. fem. n. Phorcysia, named after Phorcys, son of Neptune, father of Medusa and the other Gorgons, who was changed after death into a sea-god, referring to the habitat of the type species

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Phorcysi-), p^hor-KY-si-a

Type species: Phorcysia thermohydrogeniphila Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2012

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Perez-Rodriguez I, Grosche A, Massenburg L, Starovoytov V, Lutz RA, Vetriani C. Phorcysia thermohydrogeniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic, nitrate-ammonifying bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2388-2394.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:6-7.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 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
    Phorcysia thermohydrogeniphila Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Desulfurobacteriaceae L'Haridon et al. 2006

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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Record number: 518258