Name: "Syntrophobacterium pfennigii" (Wallrabenstein et al. 1996) Galushko and Kuever 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Syntrophobacter pfennigii Wallrabenstein et al. 1996

Etymology: pfen.ni’gi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. pfennigii, of Pfennig, named after Norbert Pfennig, a German microbiologist who contributed substantially to the understanding of syntrophic relationships and of the physiology of sulfate-reducing bacteria

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CIP 105305; DSM 10092; KoProp1

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16S rRNA gene: X82875 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Galushko A, Kuever J. Syntrophobacterium gen. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2020, p. 1-6.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Syntrophobacter pfennigii Wallrabenstein et al. 1996

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Syntrophobacter pfennigii Wallrabenstein et al. 1996	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Parent taxon: Syntrophobacterium Galushko and Kuever 2021

Assigned by: Galushko A, Kuever J. Syntrophobacterium gen. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2020, p. 1-6.

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Record number: 25520