Genus Thermotalea

Name: Thermotalea Ogg and Patel 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.ta’le.a. Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; L. fem. n. talea, a slender staff, rod; N.L. fem. n. Thermotalea, a rod-shaped thermophile

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Thermotale-), t^her-mo-TA-le-a

Type species: Thermotalea metallivorans Ogg and Patel 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ogg CD, Patel BK. Thermotalea metallivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium from the Great Artesian Basin of Australia aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:964-971. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1853-1855.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Thermotaleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
- 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Thermotaleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
- 🧕 Fisher et al. (2026) assigned this genus to the family Thermotaleaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Fisher LA, Dangre SR, McKaig JM, Lawson PA, Inman BG, Odenheimer A, Plattner TA, Quartini E, Carr CE, Doran PT, et al. Halotolerantifilum yawarlongkerapense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halotolerant and thermotolerant bacterium isolated from Lake Warden, and proposal of Guggenheimellaceae fam. nov. in the order Peptostreptococcales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7084. 🇺🇸
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.05228 (N = 11).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; JCM: 1; DSM: 1.

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
Thermotalea metallivorans Ogg and Patel 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ogg CD, Patel BK. Thermotalea metallivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium from the Great Artesian Basin of Australia aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:964-971. 🇦🇺

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