Name: Sporotomaculum Brauman et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spo.ro.to.ma’cu.lum. Gr. fem. n. spora, spore; L. neut. n. tomaculum, sausage; N.L. neut. n. Sporotomaculum, a spore-forming sausage-shaped organism

Gender: neuter (stem: Sporotomacul-)

Type species: Sporotomaculum hydroxybenzoicum Brauman et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Brauman A, Muller JA, Garcia JL, Brune A, Schink B. Fermentative degradation of 3-hydroxybenzoate in pure culture by a novel strictly anaerobic bacterium, Sporotomaculum hydroxybenzoicum gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:215-221.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:629.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Thermoanaerobacteriaceae". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt (2014) assigned this genus to the family Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020. Publication: Stackebrandt E. The emended family Peptococcaceae and description of the families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong E, Lory S, Stacke- brandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes., Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014, p. 286-290.
  • 🧕 Watanabe et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Desulfallantaceae corrig. Watanabe et al. 2021. Publication: Watanabe M, Fukui M, Kuever J. Desulfallaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2020, p. 1-3.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sporotomacudum".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; DSM: 2; ATCC: 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: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sporotomaculum hydroxybenzoicum Brauman et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sporotomaculum syntrophicum Qiu et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20.

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