Name: Deferribacter autotrophicus Slobodkina et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.to.tro’phi.cus. N.L. masc. adj. autotrophicus, autotrophic

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 21529; SL50; VKPM B-10097

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU407777 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Slobodkina GB, Kolganova TV, Chernyh NA, Querellou J, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Deferribacter autotrophicus sp. nov., an iron(III)-reducing bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1508-1512.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2131-2132.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997

Assigned by: Slobodkina GB, Kolganova TV, Chernyh NA, Querellou J, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Deferribacter autotrophicus sp. nov., an iron(III)-reducing bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1508-1512.

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Record number: 787915