Name: Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lov’ley.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. lovleyi, of Lovley, named to recognize the contributions of Derek R. Lovley to our understanding of microbial metal and radionuclide reduction

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1151; DSM 17278; SZ

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY914177 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sung Y, Fletcher KE, Ritalahti KM, Apkarian RP, Ramos-Hernandez N, Sanford RA, Mesbah NM, Loffler FE. Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. strain SZ, a novel metal-reducing and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating bacterium. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:2775-2782.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 129. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2129-2130.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Trichlorobacter lovleyi (Sung et al. 2009) Waite et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.04954 (N = 10).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 35 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995

Assigned by: Sung Y, Fletcher KE, Ritalahti KM, Apkarian RP, Ramos-Hernandez N, Sanford RA, Mesbah NM, Loffler FE. Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. strain SZ, a novel metal-reducing and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating bacterium. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:2775-2782.

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Record number: 776468