Name: Kosmotoga arenicorallina Nunoura et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.re.ni.co.ral.li.na. L. fem. n. arena, sand; L. adj. corallinus -a -um, coral-red; N.L. fem. adj. arenicorallina, intended to mean belonging to coral sand, as the strain was isolated from a sediment of coral sand

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 22549; JCM 15790; S304

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB530678 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Nunoura T, Hirai M, Imachi H, Miyazaki M, Makita H, Hirayama H, Furushima Y, Yamamoto H, Takai K. Kosmotoga arenicorallina sp. nov. a thermophilic and obligately anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a shallow hydrothermal system occurring within a coral reef, southern part of the Yaeyama Archipelago, Japan, reclassification of Thermococcoides shengliensis as Kosmotoga shengliensis comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Kosmotoga. Arch Microbiol 2010; 192:811-819.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 137. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1-3.

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: Kosmotoga DiPippo et al. 2009

Assigned by: Nunoura T, Hirai M, Imachi H, Miyazaki M, Makita H, Hirayama H, Furushima Y, Yamamoto H, Takai K. Kosmotoga arenicorallina sp. nov. a thermophilic and obligately anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a shallow hydrothermal system occurring within a coral reef, southern part of the Yaeyama Archipelago, Japan, reclassification of Thermococcoides shengliensis as Kosmotoga shengliensis comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Kosmotoga. Arch Microbiol 2010; 192:811-819.

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Record number: 788903