Name: Syntrophaceticus Westerholm et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Syn.troph.a.ce’ti.cus. Gr. prep. syn, in company with, together with; Gr. masc./fem. adj. trophos, feeder, rearer, one who feeds; L. neut. n. acetum, vinegar; L. masc. adj. suff. -icus, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; N.L. masc. n. Syntrophaceticus, syntrophic acetate feeder

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Syntrophacetic-), syn-trop^h-a-KE-ti-kus

Type species: Syntrophaceticus schinkii Westerholm et al. 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Westerholm M, Roos S, Schnurer A. Syntrophaceticus schinkii gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a mesophilic anaerobic filter. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2010; 309:100-104. 🇸🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 139. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1011-1013.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Freese et al. (2025) assigned this genus to the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010. Publication: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Westerholm et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the class Clostridia Rainey 2010. Publication: Westerholm M, Roos S, Schnurer A. Syntrophaceticus schinkii gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a mesophilic anaerobic filter. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2010; 309:100-104. 🇸🇪
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order Thermoanaerobacterales Wiegel 2010. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Syntophaceticus"; "Syntrophoaceticus".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; JCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Syntrophaceticus schinkii Westerholm et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermacetogeniaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.518012Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 518012