Name: Thermotoga lettingae Balk et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: let’tin.gae. N.L. gen. masc. n. lettingae, of Lettinga, named after Gatze Lettinga, a Dutch biotechnologist, in recognition of his pioneering work on anaerobic methanol conversion in methanogenic bioreactors

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-301; DSM 14385; TMO

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF355615 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Balk M, Weijma J, Stams AJ. Thermotoga lettingae sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, methanol-degrading bacterium isolated from a thermophilic anaerobic reactor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1361-1368.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pseudothermotoga lettingae (Balk et al. 2002) Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudothermotoga lettingae (Balk et al. 2002) Bhandari and Gupta 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • ❗ Thermotoga lettingae is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Thermotoga.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Thermotoga Stetter and Huber 1986

Assigned by: Balk M, Weijma J, Stams AJ. Thermotoga lettingae sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, methanol-degrading bacterium isolated from a thermophilic anaerobic reactor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1361-1368.

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