Name: Thermosinus carboxydivorans Sokolova et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: car.bo.xy’di.vo’rans. N.L. neut. adj. carboxydum, carbon monoxide; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring, destroying; N.L. part. adj. carboxydivorans, destroying carbon monoxide

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 14886; Nor1; VKM B-2281

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16S rRNA gene: AY519200 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sokolova TG, Gonzalez JM, Kostrikina NA, Chernyh NA, Slepova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Robb FT. Thermosinus carboxydivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic, thermophilic, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot pool of Yellowstone National Park. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2353-2359.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:551-554.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Thermosinus Sokolova et al. 2004. Publication: Sokolova TG, Gonzalez JM, Kostrikina NA, Chernyh NA, Slepova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Robb FT. Thermosinus carboxydivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic, thermophilic, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot pool of Yellowstone National Park. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2353-2359.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Thermosinus Sokolova et al. 2004

Assigned by: Sokolova TG, Gonzalez JM, Kostrikina NA, Chernyh NA, Slepova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Robb FT. Thermosinus carboxydivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic, thermophilic, carbon-monoxide-oxidizing, hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot pool of Yellowstone National Park. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2353-2359.

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Record number: 782632