Name: Thermicanus Gößner et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; N.L. masc. adj. icanus, capable; from Gr. masc. adj. hikanos; N.L. masc. n. Thermicanus, the capable thermophile

Gender: masculine

Type species: Thermicanus aegyptius Gößner et al. 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gossner AS, Devereux R, Ohnemuller N, Acker G, Stackebrandt E, Drake HL. Thermicanus aegyptius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from oxic soil, a fermentative microaerophile that grows commensally with the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoacetica. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:5124-5133.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 73. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:423-424.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the order Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: da Costa MS, Rainey FA. Family II. Alicyclobacillaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 229.

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
    Thermicanus aegyptius Gößner et al. 2000	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: [Caryophanales, not assigned to family]

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