Name: Geobacter daltonii Prakash et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: dal.to’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. daltonii, of Dalton, named after Dava Dalton who performed the initial isolation of the strain and passed away shortly thereafter

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 22248; FRC-32; JCM 15807

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU660516 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Prakash O, Gihring TM, Dalton DD, Chin KJ, Green SJ, Akob DM, Wanger G, Kostka JE. Geobacter daltonii sp. nov., an Fe(III)- and uranium(VI)-reducing bacterium isolated from a shallow subsurface exposed to mixed heavy metal and hydrocarbon contamination. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:546-553.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1253-1255.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Geotalea daltonii (Prakash et al. 2010) Waite et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Geotalea daltonii (Prakash et al. 2010) Waite et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Geobacter daltonii is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Geobacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995

Assigned by: Prakash O, Gihring TM, Dalton DD, Chin KJ, Green SJ, Akob DM, Wanger G, Kostka JE. Geobacter daltonii sp. nov., an Fe(III)- and uranium(VI)-reducing bacterium isolated from a shallow subsurface exposed to mixed heavy metal and hydrocarbon contamination. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:546-553.

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Record number: 788404