Name: Sulfurospirillum cavolei Kodama et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cav.o’le.i. L. neut. n. cavum, cave, cavern; L. gen. neut. n. olei, of/from oil; N.L. gen. neut. n. cavolei, of/from an oil cavern, as the organism was isolated from underground oil storage caverns

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 18149; JCM 13918; Phe91

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16S rRNA gene: AB246781 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kodama Y, Ha le T, Watanabe K. Sulfurospirillum cavolei sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from an underground crude oil storage cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:827-831.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1374-1375.

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 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Sulfurospirillum Schumacher et al. 1993

Assigned by: Kodama Y, Ha le T, Watanabe K. Sulfurospirillum cavolei sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from an underground crude oil storage cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:827-831.

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Record number: 782331