Name: Thermoanaerobacter uzonensis Wagner et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: u.zo.nen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. uzonensis, pertaining to the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Far East Russia

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1464; DSM 18761; JW/IW010

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF530067 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wagner ID, Zhao W, Zhang CL, Romanek CS, Rohde M, Wiegel J. Thermoanaerobacter uzonensis sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring within the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Far East Russia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2565-2573.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:205-206.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.09265 (N = 8).
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Thermoanaerobacter Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982

Assigned by: Wagner ID, Zhao W, Zhang CL, Romanek CS, Rohde M, Wiegel J. Thermoanaerobacter uzonensis sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring within the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Far East Russia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2565-2573.

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Record number: 785717