Name: Hydrogenophilus islandicus Vésteinsdóttir et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: is.lan’di.cus. N.L. masc. adj. islandicus, Icelandic, describing the place of its first isolation

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 16C; DSM 21442; JCM 16106

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16S rRNA gene: EU625664 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Vesteinsdottir H, Reynisdottir DB, Orlygsson J. Hydrogenophilus islandicus sp. nov., a thermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium isolated from an Icelandic hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:290-294.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1014-1015.

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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Hydrogenophilus Hayashi et al. 1999

Assigned by: Vesteinsdottir H, Reynisdottir DB, Orlygsson J. Hydrogenophilus islandicus sp. nov., a thermophilic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium isolated from an Icelandic hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:290-294.

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Record number: 789039