Name: "Thermodesulfobacterium geofontis" Hamilton-Brehm et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ge.o.fon’tis. Gr. fem. n. gê, earth; L. masc. n. fons (gen. fontis), a spring or fountain; N.L. gen. masc. n. geofontis, from a terrestrial hot spring

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2454; JCM 18567; OPF15

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16S rRNA gene: JX262247 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Hamilton-Brehm SD, Gibson RA, Green SJ, Hopmans EC, Schouten S, van der Meer MT, Shields JP, Damste JS, Elkins JG. Thermodesulfobacterium geofontis sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from Obsidian Pool, Yellowstone National Park. Extremophiles 2013; 17:251-263.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Thermodesulfobacterium Zeikus et al. 1995

Assigned by: Hamilton-Brehm SD, Gibson RA, Green SJ, Hopmans EC, Schouten S, van der Meer MT, Shields JP, Damste JS, Elkins JG. Thermodesulfobacterium geofontis sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from Obsidian Pool, Yellowstone National Park. Extremophiles 2013; 17:251-263.

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Record number: 801205