Name: Thermicanus aegyptius Gößner et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ae.gyp’ti.us. N.L. masc. adj. aegyptius, Egyptian, from Egypt (to indicate the origin of the type species)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 700890; DSM 12793; ET-5b

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ242495 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gossner AS, Devereux R, Ohnemuller N, Acker G, Stackebrandt E, Drake HL. Thermicanus aegyptius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from oxic soil, a fermentative microaerophile that grows commensally with the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoacetica. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:5124-5133.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 73. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:423-424.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Thermicanus Gößner et al. 2000. Publication: Gossner AS, Devereux R, Ohnemuller N, Acker G, Stackebrandt E, Drake HL. Thermicanus aegyptius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from oxic soil, a fermentative microaerophile that grows commensally with the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoacetica. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:5124-5133.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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: Thermicanus Gößner et al. 2000

Assigned by: Gossner AS, Devereux R, Ohnemuller N, Acker G, Stackebrandt E, Drake HL. Thermicanus aegyptius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from oxic soil, a fermentative microaerophile that grows commensally with the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoacetica. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:5124-5133.

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