Name: Desulfitispora Sorokin and Muyzer 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: L. prep. de, from, off, away; N.L. n. sulfis -itis, sulfite; Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed and in biology a spore; N.L. fem. n. Desulfitispora, spore-forming bacterium-reducing sulfite

Gender: feminine (stem: Desulfitispor-)

Type species: Desulfitispora alkaliphila Sorokin and Muyzer 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Muyzer G. Haloalkaliphilic spore-forming sulfidogens from soda lake sediments and description of Desulfitispora alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov. Extremophiles 2010; 14:313-320.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 134. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1477-1479.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Desulfitisporia Sorokin and Merkel 2023. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Desulfitisporia class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1-2.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Desulfitisporaceae Sorokin and Merkel 2023. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Desulfitisporaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Desulfitisporales Sorokin and Merkel 2023. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Desulfitisporales ord. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1-2.
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2021) assigned this genus to the class Desulfitisporia Sorokin and Merkel 2023. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Desulfitisporia class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1-2.
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2021) assigned this genus to the family Desulfitisporaceae Sorokin and Merkel 2023. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Desulfitisporaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1.
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2021) assigned this genus to the order Desulfitisporales Sorokin and Merkel 2023. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Desulfitisporales ord. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2021, p. 1-2.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desulfitisporum".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfitispora alkaliphila Sorokin and Muyzer 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfitispora elongata Sorokin and Chernyh 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Sorokin DY, Muyzer G. Haloalkaliphilic spore-forming sulfidogens from soda lake sediments and description of Desulfitispora alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov. Extremophiles 2010; 14:313-320.

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