Name: Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Sulfurisphaera, sulfur-metabolizing spherical cells from sulfataric fields

Gender: feminine (stem: Sulfurisphaer-)

Type species: Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis Kurosawa et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kurosawa N, Itoh YH, Iwai T, Sugai A, Uda I, Kimura N, Horiuchi T, Itoh T. Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic acidophile of the order Sulfolobales. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:451-456.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:633-634.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Tsuboi et al. 2018 Tsuboi K, Sakai HD, Nur N, Stedman KM, Kurosawa N, Suwanto A. Sulfurisphaera javensis sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon isolated from Indonesian hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus tokodaii Suzuki et al. 2002 as Sulfurisphaera tokodaii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1907-1913. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2710-2711.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Suifurisphaera"; "Sulfurispahaera"; "Sulphurisphaera".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 3; DSM: 2; NBRC: 2; IFO: 1.
  • 🧍 The Latin word sphaera is in the feminine gender. So, according to Rule 65 (2), the genus name Sulfurisphaera is in the feminine gender, not in the masculine gender as mentioned in the paper by Kurosawa et al. 1998. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sulfurisphaera javensis Tsuboi et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis Kurosawa et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurisphaera tokodaii (Suzuki et al. 2002) Tsuboi et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989

Assigned by: 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.

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