Name: Sulfurihydrogenibium subterraneum Takai et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sub.ter.ra.ne’um. L. neut. adj. subterraneum, under the earth, indicating the environment of isolation

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-562; DSM 15120; HGMK-1; JCM 11477

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB071324 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Takai K, Kobayashi H, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K. Sulfurihydrogenibium subterraneum gen. nov., sp. nov., from a subsurface hot aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:823-827.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1221-1222.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nakagawa et al. 2005 Nakagawa S, Shtaih Z, Banta A, Beveridge TJ, Sako Y, Reysenbach AL. Sulfurihydrogenibium yellowstonense sp. nov., an extremely thermophilic, facultatively heterotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from Yellowstone National Park, and emended descriptions of the genus Sulfurihydrogenibium, Sulfurihydrogenibium subterraneum and Sulfurihydrogenibium azorense. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2263-2268. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:319-321.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Sulfurihydrogenibium Takai et al. 2003. Publication: Takai K, Kobayashi H, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K. Sulfurihydrogenibium subterraneum gen. nov., sp. nov., from a subsurface hot aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:823-827.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Takai et al. 2003, the type strain HGMK-1 is also cited as HGMK1. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Mukherjee S, Seshadri R, Varghese NJ, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Coates RC, Hadjithomas M, Pavlopoulos GA, Paez-Espino D, et al. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol 2017; 35:676-683.

Parent taxon: Sulfurihydrogenibium Takai et al. 2003

Assigned by: Takai K, Kobayashi H, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K. Sulfurihydrogenibium subterraneum gen. nov., sp. nov., from a subsurface hot aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:823-827.

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