Name: Thermodesulfobacterium hveragerdense Sonne-Hansen and Ahring 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hve.ra.gerd.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. hveragerdense, pertaining to Hveragerd (Iceland)

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 12571; JSP

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X96725 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sonne-Hansen J, Ahring BK. Thermodesulfobacterium hveragerdense sp. nov., and Thermodesulfovibrio islandicus sp. nov., two thermophilic sulfate reducing bacteria isolated from a Icelandic hot spring. Syst Appl Microbiol 1999; 22:559-564.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 74. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:949-950.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.32501 (N = 1).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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: Thermodesulfobacterium Zeikus et al. 1995

Assigned by: Sonne-Hansen J, Ahring BK. Thermodesulfobacterium hveragerdense sp. nov., and Thermodesulfovibrio islandicus sp. nov., two thermophilic sulfate reducing bacteria isolated from a Icelandic hot spring. Syst Appl Microbiol 1999; 22:559-564.

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