Name: Stygiolobus Segerer et al. 1991

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sty.gi.o.lo.bus. L. masc. adj. stygius, of the Styx, Stygian, of the lower world; L. masc. n. lobus, lobe; N.L. masc. n. Stygiolobus, lobed organism from Hades (its habitat was the gate to hell in Dante's Divina Commedia)

Gender: masculine (stem: Stygiolob-)

Type species: Stygiolobus azoricus Segerer et al. 1991

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Segerer AH, Trincone A, Gahrtz M, Stetter KO. Stygiolobus azoricus gen. nov., sp. nov. represents a novel genus of anaerobic, extremely thermoacidophilic archaebacteria of the order Sulfolobales. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:495-501.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 41, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:192.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Sakai et al. 2022 Sakai HD, Nakamura K, Kurosawa N. Stygiolobus caldivivus sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from the Unzen hot spring in Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5486. Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5644.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Stigiolobus"; "Stygialabus"; "Stygiofobus"; "Stygiolcbus"; "Stygiolohus"; "Stygiowllus"; "Styglolobus".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; DSM: 1; KCTC: 1.

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
    Stygiolobus azoricus Segerer et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stygiolobus caldivivus Sakai et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.

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