Name: Sulfurospirillum Schumacher et al. 1993

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sul.fu.ro.spi.ril.lum. L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); Gr. fem. n. speîra, a spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, a short spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. Sulfurospirillum, a spirillum that reduces elemental sulfur

Gender: neuter (stem: Sulfurospirill-)

Type species: Sulfurospirillum deleyianum Schumacher et al. 1993

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Schumacher W, Kroneck PMH, Pfennig N. Comparative systematic study on "Spirillum" 5175, Campylobacter and Wolinella species. Description of "Spirillum" 5175 as Sulfurospirillum deleyianum gen. nov., spec. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 1992; 158:287-293.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 44. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:188-189.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Dehalospirillum Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Finster et al. 1997 Finster K, Liesack W, Tindall BJ. Sulfurospirillum arcachonense sp. nov., a new microaerophilic sulfur-reducing bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1212-1217. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:329-330.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Luijten et al. 2003 Luijten ML, de Weert J, Smidt H, Boschker HT, de Vos WM, Schraa G, Stams AJ. Description of Sulfurospirillum halorespirans sp. nov., an anaerobic, tetrachloroethene-respiring bacterium, and transfer of Dehalospirillum multivorans to the genus Sulfurospirillum as Sulfurospirillum multivorans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:787-793. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1221-1222.
    Notes:
    • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Sulfurospirillaceae Waite et al. 2020. 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. (2017) assigned this genus to the family Sulfurospirillaceae Waite et al. 2020. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sulfarospirillum"; "Sulfurospirillium".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SL. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 13 and 16 September 1999, Baltimore, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1401-1403.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 7 and 10 September 2003, Aarhus, Denmark. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009; 59:195-196.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02057 (N = 2).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; ATCC: 5; JCM: 4; VKM: 2; KCTC: 1; CGMCC: 1.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 44, the reference citation of Sulfurospirillum Schumacher et al. 1993 is incomplete. The correct reference is as follows: Schumacher, W., Kroneck, P. M. H. and Pfennig, N. (1992). Comparative systematic study on "Spirillum" 5175, Campylobacter and Wolinella species. Description of "Spirillum" 5175 as Sulfurospirillum deleyianum gen. nov., spec. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 158, 287-293. Publication: Euzeby JP, Kudo T. Corrigenda to the validation lists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1933-1938.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 15

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Sulfurospirillum acididehalogenans" Yang et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Sulfurospirillum alkalitolerans Sorokin et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum arcachonense Finster et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum arsenophilum Stolz et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum barnesii Stolz et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sulfurospirillum carboxydovorans" Jensen and Finster 2005	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Sulfurospirillum cavolei Kodama et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum deleyianum Schumacher et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum diekertiae Jin et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Sulfurospirillum diekertiae" Buttet et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Sulfurospirillum halorespirans Luijten et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum multivorans (Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002) Luijten et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum oryzae Xie et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum tamanense corrig. Frolova et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurospirillum tamanensis Frolova et al. 2024	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: Campylobacteraceae Vandamme and De Ley 1991

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.

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