Name: Thermosulfuriphilus ammonigenes Slobodkina et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: am.mo.ni’ge.nes. N.L. fem. n. ammonia, ammonia; Gr. suff. -genes, producing; from Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. part. adj. ammonigenes, ammonia-producing

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 102941; ST65; VKM B-2855

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KY471008 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Slobodkina GB, Reysenbach AL, Kolganova TV, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Thermosulfuriphilus ammonigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium capable of respiratory ammonification of nitrate with elemental sulfur. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3474-3479.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4881-4883.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Thermosulfuriphilus Slobodkina et al. 2017. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Reysenbach AL, Kolganova TV, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Thermosulfuriphilus ammonigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium capable of respiratory ammonification of nitrate with elemental sulfur. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3474-3479.
  • 😷 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: Thermosulfuriphilus Slobodkina et al. 2017

Assigned by: Slobodkina GB, Reysenbach AL, Kolganova TV, Novikov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Thermosulfuriphilus ammonigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium capable of respiratory ammonification of nitrate with elemental sulfur. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3474-3479.

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Record number: 795868