Name: Sulfobacillus Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sul.fo.ba.cil.lus. L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); L. masc. n. bacillus, small rod; N.L. masc. n. Sulfobacillus, small sulfur-oxidizing rod

Gender: masculine (stem: Sulfobacill-)

Type species: Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Golovacheva RS, Karavaiko GI. Sulfobacillus, a new genus of thermophilic sporeforming bacteria. Mikrobiologiya 1978; 47:815-822.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 36. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:178-179.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Johnson et al. 2008 Johnson DB, Joulian C, d'Hugues P, Hallberg KB. Sulfobacillus benefaciens sp. nov., an acidophilic facultative anaerobic Firmicute isolated from mineral bioleaching operations. Extremophiles 2008; 12:789-798. Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 9. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:5-6.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • In the paper by Johnson et al. 2008, Sulfobacillus Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991 is erroneously cited as Sulfobacillus Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1978.

• Notes:
  • De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Sulfobucillus"; "Suljobacillus"; "Sulrfobacillus"; "Suyobacillus".
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 7; VKM: 3; ATCC: 3; JCM: 1.
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SUBC" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sulfobacillus acidophilus Norris et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfobacillus benefaciens Johnson et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfobacillus disulfidooxidans Dufresne et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Sulfobacillus harzensis Zhang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sulfobacillus montserratensis" Johnson et al. 2001	not validly published
    Sulfobacillus sibiricus Melamud et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfobacillus thermotolerans Bogdanova et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sulfobacillus yellowstonensis" Kinnunen and Puhakka 2004	not validly published

Parent taxon: Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and Rainey 2010

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