Name: Natronobacterium nitratireducens Xin et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ni.tra.ti.re.du’cens. N.L. masc. n. nitras (gen. nitratis), nitrate; L. pres. part. reducens, leading back, bringing back and (in chemistry) converting to a different oxidation state; N.L. part. adj. nitratireducens, nitrate-reducing

Gender: neuter

Type strain: C231; CGMCC 1.1980; JCM 10879

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16S rRNA gene: AB663436 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xin H, Itoh T, Zhou P, Suzuki K, Nakase T. Natronobacterium nitratireducens sp. nov., a aloalkaliphilic archaeon isolated from a soda lake in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1825-1829.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halobiforma nitratireducens (Xin et al. 2001) Hezayen et al. 2002

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Halobiforma nitratireducens (Xin et al. 2001) Hezayen et al. 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Natronobacterium nitratireducens is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Natronobacterium.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the Minutes of the meetings, 24 September 2001, Sevilla, Spain of the Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae, the type strain of Natronobacterium nitratireducens is erroneously cited as JCM 10717. Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:289-290.

Parent taxon: Natronobacterium Tindall et al. 1984

Assigned by: Xin H, Itoh T, Zhou P, Suzuki K, Nakase T. Natronobacterium nitratireducens sp. nov., a aloalkaliphilic archaeon isolated from a soda lake in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1825-1829.

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