Name: Caldicoprobacter oshimai Yokoyama et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: o.shi’ma.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. oshimai, of Oshima, named after the Japanese microbiologist Tairo Oshima, in honour of his many contributions to our knowledge of thermophiles and their biochemistry

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1711; DSM 21659; JW/HY-331

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16S rRNA gene: AB450762 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yokoyama H, Wagner ID, Wiegel J. Caldicoprobacter oshimai gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, xylanolytic, extremely thermophilic bacterium isolated from sheep faeces, and proposal of Caldicoprobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:67-71.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:719-720.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Caldicoprobacter Yokoyama et al. 2010. Publication: Yokoyama H, Wagner ID, Wiegel J. Caldicoprobacter oshimai gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, xylanolytic, extremely thermophilic bacterium isolated from sheep faeces, and proposal of Caldicoprobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:67-71.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Mukherjee S, Seshadri R, Varghese NJ, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Coates RC, Hadjithomas M, Pavlopoulos GA, Paez-Espino D, et al. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol 2017; 35:676-683.

Parent taxon: Caldicoprobacter Yokoyama et al. 2010

Assigned by: Yokoyama H, Wagner ID, Wiegel J. Caldicoprobacter oshimai gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, xylanolytic, extremely thermophilic bacterium isolated from sheep faeces, and proposal of Caldicoprobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:67-71.

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Record number: 788310