Name: Desulfuribacillus stibiiarsenatis Abin and Hollibaugh 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sti.bi.i.ar.se.na’tis. L. neut. n. stibium, antimony; N.L. masc. n. arsenas (gen. arsenatis), arsenate; N.L. gen. masc. n. stibiiarsenatis, of antimony (and) arsenate, referring to the ability of the strain to use antimonate and arsenate as electron acceptors

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 28709; JCM 30866; MLFW-2

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16S rRNA gene: KF387535 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Abin CA, Hollibaugh JT. Desulfuribacillus stibiiarsenatis sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic, dissimilatory antimonate- and arsenate-reducing bacterium isolated from anoxic sediments, and emended description of the genus Desulfuribacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1011-1017.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2079-2080.

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 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Desulfuribacillus Sorokin et al. 2014

Assigned by: Abin CA, Hollibaugh JT. Desulfuribacillus stibiiarsenatis sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic, dissimilatory antimonate- and arsenate-reducing bacterium isolated from anoxic sediments, and emended description of the genus Desulfuribacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1011-1017.

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Record number: 795203