Name: Tepidibacillus infernus Podosokorskaya et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in.fer’nus. L. masc. adj. infernus, subsurface, referring to the origin of the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 28123; MBL-TLP; VKM B-2949

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: KU726543 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Gavrilov SN, Fedoseev I, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Novikov AA, Kolganova TV, Korzhenkov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, et al. Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, selenate- and arsenate-respiring hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3189-3194.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4306-4309.

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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Tepidibacillus Slobodkina et al. 2014

Assigned by: Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Gavrilov SN, Fedoseev I, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Novikov AA, Kolganova TV, Korzhenkov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, et al. Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, selenate- and arsenate-respiring hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3189-3194.

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