Name: Sulfurimonas Inagaki et al. 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sul.fu.ri.mo’nas. L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Sulfurimonas, sulfur-oxidizing rod

Gender: feminine (stem: Sulfurimonad-)

Type species: Sulfurimonas autotrophica Inagaki et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Inagaki F, Takai K, Kobayashi H, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K. Sulfurimonas autotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing epsilon-proteobacterium isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1801-1805.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:309-311.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Takai et al. 2006 Takai K, Suzuki M, Nakagawa S, Miyazaki M, Suzuki Y, Inagaki F, Horikoshi K. Sulfurimonas paralvinellae sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete nest, reclassification of Thiomicrospira denitrificans as Sulfurimonas denitrificans comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1725-1733. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2509-2510.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.
  • Labrenz et al. 2013 Labrenz M, Grote J, Mammitzsch K, Boschker HT, Laue M, Jost G, Glaubitz S, Jurgens K. Sulfurimonas gotlandica sp. nov., a chemoautotrophic and psychrotolerant epsilonproteobacterium isolated from a pelagic redoxcline, and an emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4141-4148. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:313-315.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Wang et al. 2020 Wang S, Jiang L, Liu X, Yang S, Shao Z. Sulfurimonas xiamenensis sp. nov. and Sulfurimonas lithotrophica sp. nov., hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophs within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from coastal sediments, and an emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2657-2663. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Sulfurimonadaceae Waite et al. 2020. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina MS, Hugenholtz P. Road map of the phylum Campylobacterota. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2019, p. 1-11.
  • 🧕 Campbell et al. (2006) assigned this genus to the family "Thiovulgaceae" Campbell et al. 2006. Publication: Campbell BJ, Engel AS, Porter ML, Takai K. The versatile epsilon-proteobacteria: key players in sulphidic habitats. Nat Rev Microbiol 2006; 4:458-468.
  • 🧕 Waite et al. (2017) assigned this genus to the family "Thiovulaceae" Waite et al. 2017. Publication: Waite DW, Vanwonterghem I, Rinke C, Parks DH, Zhang Y, Takai K, Sievert SM, Simon J, Campbell BJ, Hanson TE, et al. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.). Front Microbiol 2017; 8:682.
  • 🧕 Waite et al. (2019) assigned this genus to the family Sulfurimonadaceae Waite et al. 2020. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina MS, Hugenholtz P. Road map of the phylum Campylobacterota. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons (in association with Bergey's Manual Trust), Online, 2019, p. 1-11.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sulfromonas"; "Sulfuriomonas"; "Sulfuromonas".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria: minutes of the closed meetings, 17 January and 31 January 2024. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6618.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Wang et al. (2022). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.07597 (N = 2).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 9; MCCC: 8; JCM: 8; KCTC: 6; ATCC: 2; BCRC: 1; VKM: 1; B: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 20

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sulfurimonas aquatica Kojima et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurimonas autotrophica Inagaki et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Sulfurimonas baltica" Henkel et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Sulfurimonas crateris Ratnikova et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurimonas denitrificans (Timmer-ten Hoor 1975) Takai et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sulfurimonas diazotrophicus" Zhong et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Sulfurimonas gotlandica Labrenz et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sulfurimonas hongkongensis" Cai et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    "Sulfurimonas hydrogeniphila" Wang et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Sulfurimonas indica Hu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurimonas lithotrophica Wang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurimonas marina Wang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sulfurimonas marisnigri" Henkel et al. 2019	not validly published	synonym
    "Candidatus Sulfurimonas marisnigri" Henkel et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Sulfurimonas microaerophilus" Zhong et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Sulfurimonas paralvinellae Takai et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Sulfurimonas pluma" Wegener et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Sulfurimonas ponti" Van Vliet et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    "Sulfurimonas sediminis" Wang et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Sulfurimonas xiamenensis Wang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Helicobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Labrenz M, Grote J, Mammitzsch K, Boschker HT, Laue M, Jost G, Glaubitz S, Jurgens K. Sulfurimonas gotlandica sp. nov., a chemoautotrophic and psychrotolerant epsilonproteobacterium isolated from a pelagic redoxcline, and an emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4141-4148.

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