Name: Halothiobacillus kellyi Sievert et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: kel’ly.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kellyi, of Kelly, named after Donovan P. Kelly, a British microbiologist who has made important contributions to research on sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and their physiology

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BII-1; DSM 13162; Milos-BII1

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16S rRNA gene: AF170419 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sievert SM, Heidorn T, Kuever J. Halothiobacillus kellyi sp. nov., a mesophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Aegean Sea, and emended description of the genus Halothiobacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1229-1237.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1419-1420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Halothiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000

Assigned by: Sievert SM, Heidorn T, Kuever J. Halothiobacillus kellyi sp. nov., a mesophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Aegean Sea, and emended description of the genus Halothiobacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1229-1237.

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Record number: 776827