Name: Thermanaerothrix Grégoire et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Therm.an.a.e.ro’thrix. Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; Gr. pref. an-, not (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. n. aêr, air; Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Thermanaerothrix, thermophilic, anaerobic hair

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Thermanaerotrich-), t^herm-an-a-e-RO-t^hriks

Type species: Thermanaerothrix daxensis Grégoire et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gregoire P, Fardeau ML, Joseph M, Guasco S, Hamaide F, Biasutti S, Michotey V, Bonin P, Ollivier B. Isolation and characterization of Thermanaerothrix daxensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic bacterium pertaining to the phylum "Chloroflexi", isolated from a deep hot aquifer in the Aquitaine Basin. Syst Appl Microbiol 2011; 34:494-497. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 221. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6562.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Zayulina et al. 2024 Zayulina KS, Podosokorskaya OA, Klyukina AA, Panova TV, Novikov AA, Kublanov IV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Elcheninov AG. A Novel Species of the Genus Thermanaerothrix Isolated from a Kamchatka Hot Spring Possesses Hydrolytic Capabilities. Curr Microbiol 2024; 81:293. 🇷🇺 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 41. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6561.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Themoanaerothrix"; "Thermanaerothix"; "Thermoanaerothrix".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: UQM: 1; JCM: 1; VKM: 1; DSM: 1; BIM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Thermanaerothrix daxensis Grégoire et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermanaerothrix solaris Zayulina et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: [Anaerolineae, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 57284