Name: Thermotoga petrophila Takahata et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe.tro’phi.la. Gr. fem. n. petra, rock; N.L. fem. adj. suff. -phila, friend, loving; from Gr. fem. adj. philê, loving; N.L. fem. adj. petrophila, rock-loving

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 13995; JCM 10881; RKU-1

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB027016 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Takahata Y, Nishijima M, Hoaki T, Maruyama T. Thermotoga petrophila sp. nov. and Thermotoga naphthophila sp. nov., two hyperthermophilic bacteria from the Kubiki oil reservoir in Niigata, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1901-1909.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thermotoga naphthophila Takahata et al. 2001	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to Summers et al. (2020), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Thermotoga naphthophila Takahata et al. 2001. Publication: Summers ZM, Belahbib H, Pradel N, Bartoli M, Mishra P, Tamburini C, Dolla A, Ollivier B, Armougom F. A novel Thermotoga strain TFO isolated from a Californian petroleum reservoir phylogenetically related to Thermotoga petrophila and T. naphthophila, two thermophilic anaerobic isolates from a Japanese reservoir: Taxonomic and genomic considerations. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126132.
  • 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 34. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4816.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 47 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Thermotoga Stetter and Huber 1986

Assigned by: Takahata Y, Nishijima M, Hoaki T, Maruyama T. Thermotoga petrophila sp. nov. and Thermotoga naphthophila sp. nov., two hyperthermophilic bacteria from the Kubiki oil reservoir in Niigata, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1901-1909.

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Record number: 782650