Name: Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum Slobodkina et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.thy.lo.tro’phi.cum. N.L. neut. n. methyl, pertaining to the methyl radical; N.L. neut. adj. trophicum, nursing, tending or feeding; from Gr. neut. adj. trophikon, nursing, tending; N.L. neut. adj. methylotrophicum, feeding on methyl radical, methyl radical-consuming

Gender: neuter

Type strain: KCTC 62861; S M250; VKM B-3274

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16S rRNA gene: MN269950 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov. a moderately thermophilic, facultatively anaerobic, lithoautotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano. Extremophiles 2020; 24:177-185.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 193. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2960-2966.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Pelomicrobium Slobodkina et al. 2020. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov. a moderately thermophilic, facultatively anaerobic, lithoautotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano. Extremophiles 2020; 24:177-185.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Pelomicrobium Slobodkina et al. 2020

Assigned by: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Pelomicrobium methylotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov. a moderately thermophilic, facultatively anaerobic, lithoautotrophic and methylotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano. Extremophiles 2020; 24:177-185.

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Record number: 3420