Name: Syntrophothermus Sekiguchi et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Syn.tro.pho.ther.mus. Gr. prep. syn, in company with, together with; Gr. masc./fem. adj. trophos, feeder, rearer, one who feeds; Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; N.L. masc. n. Syntrophothermus, thermophilic syntroph, referring to growth in syntrophic association with hydrogenotrophic organisms at high temperature of around 55 °C.

Gender: masculine (stem: Syntrophotherm-)

Type species: Syntrophothermus lipocalidus Sekiguchi et al. 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sekiguchi Y, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K, Ohashi A, Harada H. Syntrophothermus lipocalidus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, syntrophic, fatty-acid-oxidizing anaerobe which utilizes isobutyrate. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:771-779.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:951-953.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Syntrophothermaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: 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.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Syntrophothermaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Syntrophother"; "Trophothermus".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07634 (N = 20).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 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
    Syntrophothermus lipocalidus Sekiguchi et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993

Assigned by: Jumas-Bilak E, Roudiere L, Marchandin H. Description of 'Synergistetes' phyl. nov. and emended description of the phylum 'Deferribacteres' and of the family Syntrophomonadaceae, phylum 'Firmicutes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1028-1035.

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