Name: Thermoterrabacterium Slobodkin et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.ter.ra.bac.te.ri.um. Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; L. fem. n. terra, earth, soil; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; N.L. neut. n. Thermoterrabacterium, rod-shaped bacterium from heated land

Gender: neuter (stem: Thermoterrabacteri-)

Type species: Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens Slobodkin et al. 1997

Valid publication: Slobodkin A, Reysenbach AL, Strutz N, Dreier M, Wiegel J. Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium from a continental hot spring. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:541-547.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Carboxydothermus Svetlichny et al. 1991

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Carboxydothermus Svetlichny et al. 1991	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). 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.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Carboxydothermus Svetlichny et al. 1991. Publication: Slobodkin AI, Sokolova TG, Lysenko AM, Wiegel J. Reclassification of Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens as Carboxydothermus ferrireducens comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Carboxydothermus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2349-2351.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Themnoterrahacterium"; "Themtoterrabacterium"; "Thennoterrabacterium".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • ❗ Thermoterrabacterium is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.00591 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; VKM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
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
    Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens Slobodkin et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010

Assigned by: Wiegel J. Family I. Thermoanaerobacteraceae 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. 1225.

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