Name: Desulfurolobus Zillig and Böck 1987

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fu.ro.lo’bus. L. prep. de, from; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); Gr. masc. n. lobos, lobe; N.L. masc. n. Desulfurolobus, the sulfur-reducing lobe

Gender: masculine (stem: Desulfurolob-)

Type species: Desulfurolobus ambivalens Zillig and Böck 1987

Effective publication: Zillig W, Yeats S, Holz I, Bock A, Rettenberger M, Gropp F, Simon G. Desulfurolobus arnbivalens, gen. nov., sp. nov., an autotrophic archaebacterium facultatively oxidizing or reducing sulfur. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1986; 8:197-203.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 23. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1987; 37:179-180.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Acidianus Segerer et al. 1986

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989

Assigned by: Huber G, Stetter KO. Sulfolobus metallicus, sp. nov., a novel strictly chemolithoautotrophic thermophilic archaeal species of metal-mobilizers. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1991; 14:372-378.

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Record number: 517031
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