Name: Thermosyntropha Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.syn’tro.pha. Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; Gr. masc./fem. n. syntrophos, foster brother or sister; N.L. fem. n. Thermosyntropha, “foster sisters liking it hot”, referring to the fact that the bacterium grows at elevated temperatures on fatty acids only in syntrophic cultures with H2-utilizing micro-organisms

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Thermosyntroph-), t^her-mo-SYN-tro-p^ha

Type species: Thermosyntropha lipolytica Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Svetlitshnyi V, Rainey F, Wiegel J. Thermosyntropha lipolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a lipolytic, anaerobic, alkalitolerant, thermophilic bacterium utilizing short- and long-chain fatty acids in syntrophic coculture with a methanogenic archaeum. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:1131-1137.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:243-244.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Themosyntropha"; "Thermosyntro".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; JCM: 1; ATCC: 1; CGMCC: 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
    Thermosyntropha lipolytica Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermosyntropha tengcongensis Zhang et al. 2012	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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