Name: Tepidibacillus decaturensis Dong et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: de.ca.tur.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. decaturensis, pertaining to Decatur, Illinois, USA

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2644; DSM 103037; Z9; Z9_1

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP898733 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Dong Y, Sanford RA, Boyanov MI, Kemner KM, Flynn TM, O'Loughlin EJ, Locke RA, Weber JR, Egan SM, Fouke BW. Tepidibacillus decaturensis sp. nov., a microaerophilic, moderately thermophilic iron-reducing bacterium isolated from 1.7 km depth groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3964-3971.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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.

Parent taxon: Tepidibacillus Slobodkina et al. 2014

Assigned by: Dong Y, Sanford RA, Boyanov MI, Kemner KM, Flynn TM, O'Loughlin EJ, Locke RA, Weber JR, Egan SM, Fouke BW. Tepidibacillus decaturensis sp. nov., a microaerophilic, moderately thermophilic iron-reducing bacterium isolated from 1.7 km depth groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3964-3971.

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Record number: 794662