Name: Thioflexithrix psekupsensis Gureeva et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pse.kup.sen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. psekupsensis, pertaining to the river Psekups in the Krasnodar region, Russia, into which a hot sulfur source flows, from which strain D3T was isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … pse-kup-SEN-sis, feminine

Type strain: D3; KCTC 62399; UNIQEM U981

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16S rRNA gene: KP056307 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gureeva MV, Belousova EV, Dubinina GA, Novikov AA, Kopitsyn DS, Grabovich MY. Thioflexithrix psekupsensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous gliding sulfur bacterium from the family Beggiatoaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:798-804. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1529-1530.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Thioflexothrix psekupsii" Orlova et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Thioflexithrix Gureeva et al. 2019. Publication: Gureeva MV, Belousova EV, Dubinina GA, Novikov AA, Kopitsyn DS, Grabovich MY. Thioflexithrix psekupsensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous gliding sulfur bacterium from the family Beggiatoaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:798-804. 🇷🇺
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Thioflexithrix Gureeva et al. 2019

Assigned by: Gureeva MV, Belousova EV, Dubinina GA, Novikov AA, Kopitsyn DS, Grabovich MY. Thioflexithrix psekupsensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous gliding sulfur bacterium from the family Beggiatoaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:798-804. 🇷🇺

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Record number: 800144