Name: Thermoanaerobacter Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.a.nae.ro.bac.ter. Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; Gr. pref. an-, not (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. n. aêr (gen. aeros), air; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Thermoanaerobacter, rod which grows in the absence of air at elevated temperatures

Gender: masculine (stem: Thermoanaerobacter-)

Type species: Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Wiegel J, Ljungdahl LG. Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus gen. nov., spec. nov., a new, extreme thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium. Arch. Microbiol. 1981; 128:343-348.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 9. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1982; 32:384-385.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thermoanaerobium Zeikus et al. 1983	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Acetogenium Leigh and Wolfe 1983	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Thermobacteroides Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Lee et al. 2007 Lee YJ, Dashti M, Prange A, Rainey FA, Rohde M, Whitman WB, Wiegel J. Thermoanaerobacter sulfurigignens sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium that reduces 1 M thiosulfate to elemental sulfur and tolerates 90 mM sulfite. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1429-1434. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010. Publication: Wiegel J. Family I. Thermoanaerobacteraceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 1225.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Thermoanaerobacterales Wiegel 2010. Publication: Wiegel J. Order III. Thermoanaerobacterales ord. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 1224.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Thermoanaerobacteriaceae". Publication: 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.
  • 🧕 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the order Thermoanaerobacterales Wiegel 2010. Publication: Wiegel J. Order III. Thermoanaerobacterales ord. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 1224.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Maanaerobacter"; "Tbermoanaerobacter"; "Theimoanaerobacter"; "Themoanaerobacte"; "Themoanaerobacter"; "Themwanaerobacter"; "Themzoanaerobacter"; "Thennoanaerobacter"; "Thermaanaerabacter"; "Thermaanaerobacter"; "Thermoanaeobacter"; "Thermoanaeroba"; "Thermoanaerobmter"; "Thermoanaerobncter"; "Thermoanarobacter"; "Thermoaneerebacter"; "Thermoanoerobacter"; "Thermoauerobacter"; "Thermounaerobacter"; "Thernioanaerohacter"; "Theroanaerobacter"; "Therrnoanaerobacter"; "Thewnoanaerobacter"; "Tlrermoanaerobacter".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Wagner et al. (2008), Fardeau et al. (2004). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 18; ATCC: 12; JCM: 3; NCIMB: 1; KCTC: 1; BCRC: 1; LMG: 1; VKM: 1; CIP: 1; CECT: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "TMAB" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 19
Total number of child taxa: 22

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus (Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983) Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter brockii (Zeikus et al. 1983) Lee et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter finnii Schmid et al. 1986	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Thermoanaerobacter indiensis" Pal 2014	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Thermoanaerobacter italicus Kozianowski et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thermoanaerobacter keratinophilus" Riessen and Antranikian 2001	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Thermoanaerobacter kivui (Leigh and Wolfe 1983) Collins et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter mathranii Larsen et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter pentosaceus Tomás et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter pseudethanolicus Onyenwoke et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thermoanaerobacter saccharolyticum" Lupas et al. 1994	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Thermoanaerobacter siderophilus Slobodkin et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter subterraneus Fardeau et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thermoanaerobacter sulfurigignens Lee et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter sulfurophilus Bonch-Osmolovskaya 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis Xue et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thermoanaerobacter thermocopriae (Jin et al. 1988) Collins et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus (Klaushofer and Parkkinen 1965) Lee et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter uzonensis Wagner et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter wiegelii Cook et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoanaerobacter yonseiensis Kim et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010

Assigned by: Wiegel J. Family I. Thermoanaerobacteraceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 1225.

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