Name: Thalassospira López-López et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Tha.las.so.spi’ra. Gr. fem. n. thalassa, the sea; Gr. fem. n. speîra, a spire; N.L. fem. n. Thalassospira, spiral-shaped organism from the sea

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Thalassospir-), t^ha-las-so-SPI-ra

Type species: Thalassospira lucentensis López-López et al. 2002

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lopez-Lopez A, Pujalte MJ, Benlloch S, Mata-Roig M, Rossello-Mora R, Garay E, Rodriguez-Valera F. Thalassospira lucentensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new marine member of the alpha-Proteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1277-1283. 🇪🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Liu et al. 2007 Liu C, Wu Y, Li L, Ma Y, Shao Z. Thalassospira xiamenensis sp. nov. and Thalassospira profundimaris sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:316-320. 🇨🇳 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:898-899.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.
  • Tsubouchi et al. 2014 Tsubouchi T, Ohta Y, Haga T, Usui K, Shimane Y, Mori K, Tanizaki A, Adachi A, Kobayashi K, Yukawa K, et al. Thalassospira alkalitolerans sp. nov. and Thalassospira mesophila sp. nov., isolated from a decaying bamboo sunken in the marine environment, and emended description of the genus Thalassospira. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:107-115. 🇯🇵 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1075-1076.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Thalassospiraceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). 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: "Thalassospua"; "Thlassospira".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Dong et al. (2018). 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 7; DSM: 5; CECT: 3; CGMCC: 3; MCCC: 3; KCTC: 2; LMG: 2; NBRC: 1; KMM: 1; MCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 13
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 17

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Thalassospira alkalitolerans Tsubouchi et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira aquimaris Fu et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira australica Ivanova et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thalassospira frigidphilosprofundus" Pulicherla et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name
    Thalassospira indica Liu et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira lohafexi Shivaji et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira lucentensis López-López et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira marina Dong et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira mesophila Tsubouchi et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thalassospira permensis" Plotnikova et al. 2011	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Thalassospira pliocenensis" Orsi et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Thalassospira plioceni" corrig. Orsi et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Thalassospira povalilytica Nogi et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira profundimaris Liu et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira tepidiphila Kodama et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira xiamenensis Liu et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira xianhensis Zhao et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thalassospiraceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪

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