Name: Calorimonas adulescens Khomyakova et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.du.les’cens. L. fem. adj. adulescens, young, growing, coddled, pertaining to the microorganism’s requirement for additional supplements for growth on any substrate

Pronunciation, gender: a-du-LES-kens, feminine

Type strain: A05 MB; KCTC 15839; VKM B-3388

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16S rRNA gene: MK787307 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Kopitsyn DS, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Calorimonas adulescens gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium utilizing methoxylated benzoates. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2066-2071.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3583-3587.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Calorimonas Khomyakova et al. 2020. Publication: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Kopitsyn DS, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Calorimonas adulescens gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium utilizing methoxylated benzoates. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2066-2071.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Calorimonas Khomyakova et al. 2020

Assigned by: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Kopitsyn DS, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Calorimonas adulescens gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium utilizing methoxylated benzoates. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2066-2071.

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Record number: 5846