Name: Methanospirillum stamsii Parshina et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: stams’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. stamsii, of Stams, named after Professor Alfons J. M. Stams, a Dutch 184 microbiologist, for his great contribution to the understanding of syntrophic communities of bacteria and archaea

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 26304; Pt1; VKM B-2808

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16S rRNA gene: HF569045 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Parshina SN, Ermakova AV, Bomberg M, Detkova EN. Methanospirillum stamsii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, hydrogenotrophic, methanogenic archaeon isolated from an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed bioreactor operated at low temperature. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:180-186.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1075-1076.

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: Methanospirillum Ferry et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Parshina SN, Ermakova AV, Bomberg M, Detkova EN. Methanospirillum stamsii sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, hydrogenotrophic, methanogenic archaeon isolated from an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed bioreactor operated at low temperature. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:180-186.

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Record number: 791454