Name: Thermovenabulum gondwanense Ogg et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gond.wan.en’se. L. neut. adj. gondwanense, of or pertaining to the large land mass known as Gondwana, which included Australia, Africa, India and South America before they separated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 21133; KCTC 5616; R270

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU443729 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ogg CD, Greene AC, Patel BK. Thermovenabulum gondwanense sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic Fe(III)-reducing bacterium isolated from microbial mats thriving in a Great Artesian Basin bore runoff channel. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1079-1084.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1715-1716.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Pradel et al. 2013 Pradel N, Bartoli M, Bernadac A, Gimenez G, Ollivier B, Fardeau ML. Isolation of Thermovenabulum gondwanense from a French hot spring and emended description of the species. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:271-279. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 19. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:8-10.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Thermovenabulum Zavarzina et al. 2002

Assigned by: Ogg CD, Greene AC, Patel BK. Thermovenabulum gondwanense sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic Fe(III)-reducing bacterium isolated from microbial mats thriving in a Great Artesian Basin bore runoff channel. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1079-1084.

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Record number: 788532