Name: Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fi.ti.bac.ter. L. prep. de, from, off, away; N.L. n. sulfis -itis, sulfite; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Desulfitibacter, rod-shaped bacterium that reduces sulfite

Gender: masculine (stem: Desulfitibacter-)

Type species: Desulfitibacter alkalitolerans Nielsen et al. 2006

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nielsen MB, Kjeldsen KU, Ingvorsen K. Desulfitibacter alkalitolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, alkalitolerant, sulfite-reducing bacterium isolated from a district heating plant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2831-2836.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:435-436.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Desulfitibacteraceae Lv et al. 2020. Publication: Lv XM, Yang M, Dai LR, Tu B, Chang C, Huang Y, Deng Y, Lawson PA, Zhang H, Cheng L, et al. Zhaonella formicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic formate-utilizing bacterium isolated from Shengli oilfield, and proposal of four novel families and Moorellales ord. nov. in the phylum Firmicutes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3361-3373.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Desulfitibacterales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Desulfitibacterales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Lv et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Desulfitibacteraceae Lv et al. 2020. Publication: Lv XM, Yang M, Dai LR, Tu B, Chang C, Huang Y, Deng Y, Lawson PA, Zhang H, Cheng L, et al. Zhaonella formicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic formate-utilizing bacterium isolated from Shengli oilfield, and proposal of four novel families and Moorellales ord. nov. in the phylum Firmicutes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3361-3373.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desulfitobacte"; "Desulfotobacter".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.04843 (N = 11).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; JCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfitibacter alkalitolerans Nielsen et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class 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. 19-20.

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