Name: "Candidatus Desulfofervidus auxilii" Krukenberg et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: au.xi’li.i. L. neut. n. auxilium, help/support; L. gen. neut. n. auxilii, of help/ support indicating that the organism is capable of a syntrophic life style

Gender: masculine

Type strain: HS1

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CP013015 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Krukenberg V, Harding K, Richter M, Glockner FO, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Adam B, Berg JS, Knittel K, Tegetmeyer HE, Boetius A, et al. Candidatus Desulfofervidus auxilii, a hydrogenotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium involved in the thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:3073-3091.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Desulfofervidus" Krukenberg et al. 2016. Publication: Krukenberg V, Harding K, Richter M, Glockner FO, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Adam B, Berg JS, Knittel K, Tegetmeyer HE, Boetius A, et al. Candidatus Desulfofervidus auxilii, a hydrogenotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium involved in the thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:3073-3091.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Desulfofervidus" Krukenberg et al. 2016

Assigned by: Krukenberg V, Harding K, Richter M, Glockner FO, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Adam B, Berg JS, Knittel K, Tegetmeyer HE, Boetius A, et al. Candidatus Desulfofervidus auxilii, a hydrogenotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium involved in the thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:3073-3091.

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Record number: 989