Name: Thermosipho affectus Podosokorskaya et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: af.fec.tus. L. masc. part. adj. affectus, affected with something, sensitive to external actions

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 23112; ik275mar; VKM B-2574

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GQ292553 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Kublanov IV, Reysenbach AL, Kolganova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Thermosipho affectus sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium isolated from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1160-1164.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1765-1766.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Thermosipho Huber et al. 1989

Assigned by: Podosokorskaya OA, Kublanov IV, Reysenbach AL, Kolganova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Thermosipho affectus sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium isolated from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1160-1164.

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Record number: 789224