Name: Nautilia lithotrophica Miroshnichenko et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: li.tho.tro’phi.ca. Gr. masc./fem. n. lithos, stone; Gr. masc./fem. adj. trophos, consuming; N.L. fem. adj. lithotrophica, inorganic-substrate-consuming

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … li-t^ho-TRO-p^hi-ka, feminine

Type strain: 525; DSM 13520; JCM 15786

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Valid publication: Miroshnichenko ML, Kostrikina NA, L'Haridon S, Jeanthon C, Hippe H, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Nautilia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur-reducing epsilon-proteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1299-1304. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Nautilia Miroshnichenko et al. 2002. Publication: Miroshnichenko ML, Kostrikina NA, L'Haridon S, Jeanthon C, Hippe H, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Nautilia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur-reducing epsilon-proteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1299-1304. 🇷🇺
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 At the time of publication, the type strain was not deposited in two publicly accessible service collections in different countries. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.
  • 🧍 At the time of publication, the type strain was not deposited in two publicly accessible service collections in different countries, and Nautilia lithotrophica Miroshnichenko et al. 2002 was not validly published [Rules 27(3) and 30]. However, according to the Judicial Opinion 81, Nautilia lithotrophica Miroshnichenko et al. 2002 is now considered to be validly published, since deposit in a second culture collection in a different country has been documented. Publication: Euzeby JP, Tindall BJ. Status of strains that contravene Rules 27(3) and 30 of the Bacteriological Code. Request for an opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:293-301. 🇫🇷
  • 🧍 The specific epithet lithotrophica is a N.L. fem. adj. not a Gr. fem. adj. as cited in the paper by Miroshnichenko et al. 2002 (see Principle 3). Publication: Judicial Commission. Judicial Opinion No. 81. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1755-1763.

Parent taxon: Nautilia Miroshnichenko et al. 2002

Assigned by: Miroshnichenko ML, Kostrikina NA, L'Haridon S, Jeanthon C, Hippe H, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Nautilia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur-reducing epsilon-proteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1299-1304. 🇷🇺

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