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

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 525; DSM 13520; JCM 15786

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AJ404370 Analyse FASTA

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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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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