Genus Vampirovibrio

Name: Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. vampirum, vampire (from Hung. vampir); L. v. vibro, to set in tremulous motion, move to and fro, vibrate; N.L. masc. n. vibrio, that which vibrates, and also a bacterial genus name of bacteria possessing a curved rod shape (Vibrio); N.L. masc. n. Vampirovibrio, a vampire-like vibrio

Gender: masculine (stem: Vampirovibrion-)

Type species: Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus (ex Gromov and Mamkayeva 1972) Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gromov BV, Mamkayeva KA. Proposal of a new genus Vampirovibrio for chlorellavorus bacteria previously assigned to Bdellovibrio. Mikrobiologia 1980; 49:165-167.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 5. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:676-677.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

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

Parent taxon: Vampirovibrionaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 517384
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