Name: "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha" König et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Thi.o.di.a.zo’tro.pha. Gr. neut. n. theîon, sulfur; N.L. pref. diazo-, pertaining to dinitrogen (in compound words); Gr. masc./fem. adj. trophos, nourishing, feeding; from Gr. fem. n. trophê, nutrition; N.L. fem. n. Thiodiazotropha, feeder on sulfur and dinitrogen

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Thiodiazotroph-), t^hi-o-di-a-ZO-tro-p^ha

Type species: "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endolucinida" König et al. 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Konig S, Gros O, Heiden SE, Hinzke T, Thurmer A, Poehlein A, Meyer S, Vatin M, Mbeguie-A-Mbeguie D, Tocny J, et al. Nitrogen fixation in a chemoautotrophic lucinid symbiosis. Nat Microbiol 2016; 2:16193. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 König et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Konig S, Gros O, Heiden SE, Hinzke T, Thurmer A, Poehlein A, Meyer S, Vatin M, Mbeguie-A-Mbeguie D, Tocny J, et al. Nitrogen fixation in a chemoautotrophic lucinid symbiosis. Nat Microbiol 2016; 2:16193. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thiodizaotropha"; "Thiodizotropha".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endoloripes" Petersen et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endolucinida" König et al. 2016	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha fisheri" Giani et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha gloverae" Osvatic et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha grosi" Giani et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha lotti" Osvatic et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha taylori" Osvatic et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha taylorii" corrig. Osvatic et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Thiodiazotropha weberae" Osvatic et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Sedimenticolaceae Slobodkina et al. 2024

Assigned by: Slobodkina G, Merkel A, Ratnikova N, Kuchierskaya A, Slobodkin A. Sedimenticola hydrogenitrophicus sp. nov. a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Sedimenticolaceae fam. nov. in the order Chromatiales. Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126451. 🇷🇺

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