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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Desulfolutivibrio sulfoxidireducens

Name: Desulfolutivibrio sulfoxidireducens Thiel et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sul.fo.xi.di.re.du’cens. N.L. neut. n. sulfoxidum, sulfoxide; L. pres. part. reducens, bringing or leading back, used to mean ’reducing’; N.L. masc. part. adj. sulfoxidireducens, sulfoxide reducing

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … sul-fo-ksi-di-re-DU-kens, masculine

Type strain: DSM 107105; J.5.4.2-L4.2.8; NBRC 113990

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MN596862 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Thiel J, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Sproer C, Bunk B, Koeksoy E, Ngugi DK, Schink B, Pester M. Desulfolutivibrio sulfoxidireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a pyrite-forming enrichment culture and reclassification of Desulfovibrio sulfodismutans as Desulfolutivibrio sulfodismutans comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126105. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 198. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4688.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Desulfolutivibrio Thiel et al. 2021

Assigned by: Thiel J, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Sproer C, Bunk B, Koeksoy E, Ngugi DK, Schink B, Pester M. Desulfolutivibrio sulfoxidireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a pyrite-forming enrichment culture and reclassification of Desulfovibrio sulfodismutans as Desulfolutivibrio sulfodismutans comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126105. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 18994
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