Name: Desulfocurvibacter africanus subsp. uniflagellum (Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010) Spring et al. 2019

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. uniflagellum Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010

Etymology: uni.fla.gel’lum. L. masc. adj. unus, only one, one; L. neut. n. flagellum, whip; N.L. neut. n. uniflagellum, the only one whip (nominative in apposition)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 23860; JCM 15510; KCTC 5649; SR-1

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: EU659693 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Spring S, Sorokin DY, Verbarg S, Rohde M, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria That Produce Exopolymers Thrive in the Calcifying Zone of a Hypersaline Cyanobacterial Mat. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:862.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 188. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1844-1846.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Desulfovibrio africanus subsp. uniflagellum Castañeda-Carrión et al. 2010	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Parent taxon: Desulfocurvibacter africanus (Campbell et al. 1966) Spring et al. 2019

Assigned by: Spring S, Sorokin DY, Verbarg S, Rohde M, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC. Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria That Produce Exopolymers Thrive in the Calcifying Zone of a Hypersaline Cyanobacterial Mat. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:862.

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Record number: 801361