Name: Pyrinomonas methylaliphatogenes Crowe et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.thyl.a.li.pha.to’ge.nes. N.L. neut. n. methylum, the methyl group; Gr. n. alipharatos, oil, fat; Gr. suff. -genes, producing; from Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. part. adj. methylaliphatogenes, producing methyl- and isomethyl-branching fats and glyceryl ether lipids

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 25857; ICMP 18710; K22

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16S rRNA gene: AM749787 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Crowe MA, Power JF, Morgan XC, Dunfield PF, Lagutin K, Rijpstra IC, Vyssotski GN, Sinninghe Damste JS, Houghton KM, Ryan JL, et al. Pyrinomonas methylaliphatogenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel group 4 thermophilic member of the phylum Acidobacteria from geothermal soils. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:220-227.

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Pyrinomonas Crowe et al. 2014. Publication: Crowe MA, Power JF, Morgan XC, Dunfield PF, Lagutin K, Rijpstra IC, Vyssotski GN, Sinninghe Damste JS, Houghton KM, Ryan JL, et al. Pyrinomonas methylaliphatogenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel group 4 thermophilic member of the phylum Acidobacteria from geothermal soils. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:220-227.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Pyrinomonas Crowe et al. 2014

Assigned by: Crowe MA, Power JF, Morgan XC, Dunfield PF, Lagutin K, Rijpstra IC, Vyssotski GN, Sinninghe Damste JS, Houghton KM, Ryan JL, et al. Pyrinomonas methylaliphatogenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel group 4 thermophilic member of the phylum Acidobacteria from geothermal soils. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:220-227.

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