Name: Sedimenticola hydrogenitrophicus Slobodkina et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hy.dro.ge.ni.tro’phi.cus. N.L. neut. n. hydrogenum, hydrogen (that which produces water); Gr. masc./fem. adj. trophos, one who feeds; N.L. masc. adj. hydrogenitrophicus, one who feeds on hydrogen

Pronunciation, gender: hy-dro-ge-ni-TRO-p^hi-kus, masculine

Type strain: KCTC 25568; SB48; VKM B-3680

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16S rRNA gene: OP089092 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Slobodkina G, Merkel A, Ratnikova N, Kuchierskaya A, Slobodkin A. Sedimenticola hydrogenitrophicus sp. nov. a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Sedimenticolaceae fam. nov. in the order Chromatiales. Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126451.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 216. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6229.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Sedimenticola Narasingarao and Häggblom 2006

Assigned by: Slobodkina G, Merkel A, Ratnikova N, Kuchierskaya A, Slobodkin A. Sedimenticola hydrogenitrophicus sp. nov. a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Sedimenticolaceae fam. nov. in the order Chromatiales. Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126451.

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Record number: 46576