Name: Pyrobaculum oguniense Sako et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ogu.ni.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. oguniense, pertaining to Oguni-cho, which is the town of the Tuetate hot spring (a slightly alkaliphilic terrestrial hot spring in Oguni cho, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan)

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 13380; JCM 10595; TE7

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16S rRNA gene: AB087402 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sako Y, Nunoura T, Uchida A. Pyrobaculum oguniense sp. nov., a novel facultatively aerobic and hyperthermophilic archaeon growing at up to 97 degrees C. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:303-309.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:795-796.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Pyrobaculum Huber et al. 1988

Assigned by: Sako Y, Nunoura T, Uchida A. Pyrobaculum oguniense sp. nov., a novel facultatively aerobic and hyperthermophilic archaeon growing at up to 97 degrees C. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:303-309.

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Record number: 780275