Name: Thauera Macy et al. 1993

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Thauera, named after R.K. Thauer, a German microbiologist

Gender: feminine

Type species: Thauera selenatis Macy et al. 1993

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Macy JM, Rech S, Auling G, Dorsch M, Stackebrandt E, Sly LI. Thauera selenatis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the beta subclass of Proteobacteria with a novel type of anaerobic respiration. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:135-142.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 43, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:399.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Anders et al. 1995 Anders HJ, Kaetzke A, Kampfer P, Ludwig W, Fuchs G. Taxonomic position of aromatic-degrading denitrifying pseudomonad strains K 172 and KB 740 and their description as new members of the genera Thauera, as Thauera aromatica sp. nov., and Azoarcus, as Azoarcus evansii sp. nov., respectively, members of the beta subclass of the Proteobacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:327-333. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 45, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:621.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Song et al. 1998 Song B, Young LY, Palleroni NJ. Identification of denitrifier strain T1 as Thauera aromatica and proposal for emendation of the genus Thauera definition. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:889-894. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.
  • Yin et al. 2017 Yin Y, Wang Y, Tang W, Song L. Thauera phenolivorans sp. nov., a phenol degrading bacterium isolated from activated sludge. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:1681-1690. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 28. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2137-2138.

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Rhodocyclaceae". Publication: 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Thaurea".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 14
Total number of child taxa: 15

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Thauera aminoaromatica Mechichi et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
    Thauera aromatica Anders et al. 1995	validly published	correct name
    Thauera butanivorans (ex Takahashi et al. 1980) Dubbels et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Thauera chlorobenzoica Song et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
    Thauera humireducens Yang et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
    Thauera hydrothermalis Yang et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Thauera lacus Zheng et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
    Thauera linaloolentis Foss and Harder 1999	validly published	correct name
    Thauera mechernichensis Scholten et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
    "Thauera phenolivorans" Yin et al. 2017	not validly published
    Thauera phenylacetica Mechichi et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
    Thauera propionica Pal et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Thauera selenatis Macy et al. 1993	validly published	correct name
    Thauera sinica Qiao et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
    Thauera terpenica Foss and Harder 1999	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Zoogloeaceae Boden et al. 2017

Assigned by: Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205.

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