Name: Thioalkalivibrio nitratireducens corrig. Sorokin et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ni.tra.ti.re.du’cens. N.L. masc. n. nitras (gen. nitratis), nitrate; L. pres. part. reducens, converting to a different state; N.L. masc. part. adj. nitratireducens, reducing nitrate

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … ni-tra-ti-re-DU-kens, masculine

Type strain: ALEN 2; DSM 14787; UNIQEM 213

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY079010 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Sjollema KA, Kuenen JG. Thialkalivibrio nitratireducens sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing member of an autotrophic denitrifying consortium from a soda lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1779-1783. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:309-311.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thialkalivibrio nitratireducens Sorokin et al. 2003	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04501 (N = 21).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 16 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🧍 Listed as Thialkalivibrio in the notification list. Publication: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:309-311.
  • 🧍 The original spelling of the genus name, Thioalkalivibrio (sic), was corrected by the List Editor of the IJSEM to Thialkalivibrio (IJSEM 51:796). This correction was withdrawn following a decision of the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes at the Xth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology 2002, Paris (See IJSEM 55:527, Session 2, Minute 13). Publication: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:795-796.
  • 🧍 Consequently, in 2003, Sorokin et al. proposed the name Thialkalivibrio nitratireducens [3]. Publication: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Sjollema KA, Kuenen JG. Thialkalivibrio nitratireducens sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing member of an autotrophic denitrifying consortium from a soda lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1779-1783. 🇷🇺
  • 🧍 However, during the meeting of the Judicial Commission held during the Xth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology [4], H.G. Trüper proposed that the recommendations governing the use of the connecting vowel should be overruled by the usage in chemistry and physics. Consequently, in combined names, which include terms used in chemistry or physics the connecting vowel shall not be dropped when the following component starts with a vowel and when this may cause ambiguity or uncertainty in meaning [4]. The Judicial Commission unanimously agreed to this proposal [4] and the name Thioalkalivibrio nitratireducens corrig. must be used. Publication: De Vos P, Trüper HG, Tindall BJ. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Xth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 28, 29 and 31 July and 1 August 2002, Paris, France. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2005; 55:525-532. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 The genus name Thioalkalivibrio, proposed by Sorokin et al. 2001 [1], was corrected to Thialkalivibrio by the List Editor of the IJSEM [2]. Publication: Sorokin DY, Lysenko AM, Mityushina LL, Tourova TP, Jones BE, Rainey FA, Robertson LA, Kuenen GJ. Thioalkalimicrobium aerophilum gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thioalkalimicrobium sibericum sp. nov., and Thioalkalivibrio versutus gen. nov., sp. nov., Thioalkalivibrio nitratis sp.nov., novel and Thioalkalivibrio denitrificancs sp. nov., novel obligately alkaliphilic and obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:565-580. 🇳🇱

Parent taxon: Thioalkalivibrio corrig. Sorokin et al. 2001

Assigned by: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Sjollema KA, Kuenen JG. Thialkalivibrio nitratireducens sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing member of an autotrophic denitrifying consortium from a soda lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1779-1783. 🇷🇺

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