Name: Thermoanaerobacter sulfurophilus Bonch-Osmolovskaya 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sul.fu.ro.phi’lus. L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); Gr. masc. adj. philos, liking; N.L. masc. adj. sulfurophilus, liking elemental sulfur

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 11584; L-64

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16S rRNA gene: Y16940 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Miroshnichenko ML, Chernykh NA, Kostrikina NA, Pikuta EV, Rainey FA. Reduction of elemental sulfur by moderately thermophilic organotrophic bacteria and the description of Thermoanaerobacter sulfurophilus sp. nov. Microbiology 1997; 66:483-489.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 66. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:631-632.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Bonch Osmolovskaya) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Bonch Osmolovskaya et al.).
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 Complete authorship reads: Bonch-Osmolovskaya 1998 in Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Miroshnichenko, Chernykh, Kostrikina, Pikuta and Rainey 1997.

Parent taxon: Thermoanaerobacter Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982

Assigned by: Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Miroshnichenko ML, Chernykh NA, Kostrikina NA, Pikuta EV, Rainey FA. Reduction of elemental sulfur by moderately thermophilic organotrophic bacteria and the description of Thermoanaerobacter sulfurophilus sp. nov. Microbiology 1997; 66:483-489.

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