Name: Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis Ghosh et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: kash.mir.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. kashmirensis, of Kashmir, after the name of the province from where the original strains of the species were isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 17095; LMG 22695; MTCC 7002; WT001

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ864470 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ghosh W, Bagchi A, Mandal S, Dam B, Roy P. Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic betaproteobacterium isolated from soil from a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1779-1787.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:7-9.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Advenella kashmirensis (Ghosh et al. 2005) Gibello et al. 2009

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Advenella kashmirensis (Ghosh et al. 2005) Gibello et al. 2009	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Tetrathiobacter Ghosh et al. 2005. Publication: Ghosh W, Bagchi A, Mandal S, Dam B, Roy P. Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic betaproteobacterium isolated from soil from a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1779-1787.
  • ❗ Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Tetrathiobacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 11 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Tetrathiobacter Ghosh et al. 2005

Assigned by: Ghosh W, Bagchi A, Mandal S, Dam B, Roy P. Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic betaproteobacterium isolated from soil from a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1779-1787.

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