Name: Acidiplasma cupricumulans (Hawkes et al. 2008) Golyshina et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Ferroplasma cupricumulans Hawkes et al. 2008

Etymology: cu.pri.cu’mu.lans. L. neut. n. cuprum, copper; L. pres. part. cumulans, heaping up, accumulating; N.L. part. adj. cupricumulans, copper-accumulating

Gender: neuter

Type strain: BH2; DSM 16651; JCM 13668

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY907888 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Golyshina OV, Yakimov MM, Lunsdorf H, Ferrer M, Nimtz M, Timmis KN, Wray V, Tindall BJ, Golyshin PN. Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2815-2823.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:269-270.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Ferroplasma cupricumulans Hawkes et al. 2008	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Golyshina et al. 2009, the type strain DSM 16651 is erroneously cited as DSM 16551. — Spring S. Personal communication, 2009-11-09.

Parent taxon: Acidiplasma Golyshina et al. 2009

Assigned by: Golyshina OV, Yakimov MM, Lunsdorf H, Ferrer M, Nimtz M, Timmis KN, Wray V, Tindall BJ, Golyshin PN. Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2815-2823.

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Record number: 788161