Name: Vulcaniibacterium Yu et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Vul.ca.ni.i.bac.te’ri.um. L. masc. adj. vulcanius, belonging to Vulcan (the god of fire), intended to mean volcanic; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a small rod; N.L. neut. n. Vulcaniibacterium, a small rod inhabiting volcanic areas

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Vulcaniibacteri-), wul-ka-ni-i-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Vulcaniibacterium tengchongense Yu et al. 2014

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Yu TT, Zhou EM, Yin YR, Yao JC, Ming H, Dong L, Li S, Nie GX, Li WJ. Vulcaniibacterium tengchongense gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from a geothermally heated soil sample, and reclassification of Lysobacter thermophilus Wei et al. 2012 as Vulcaniibacterium thermophilum comb. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:369-376. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 156. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:693-696.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

Parent taxon: Lysobacteraceae Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Naushad S, Adeolu M, Wong S, Sohail M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and molecular marker based taxonomic framework for the order Xanthomonadales: proposal to transfer the families Algiphilaceae and Solimonadaceae to the order Nevskiales ord. nov. and to create a new family within the order Xanthomonadales, the family Rhodanobacteraceae fam. nov., containing the genus Rhodanobacter and its closest relatives. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:467-485. 🇨🇦

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