Name: Geothermobacter Kashefi et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ge.o.ther.mo.bac’ter. Gr. fem. n. gê, the earth; Gr. masc. adj. thermos, heat; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Geothermobacter, a rod from hot earth

Gender: masculine (stem: Geothermobacter-)

Type species: Geothermobacter ehrlichii Kashefi et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kashefi K, Holmes DE, Baross JA, Lovley DR. Thermophily in the Geobacteraceae: Geothermobacter ehrlichii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic member of the Geobacteraceae from the "Bag City" hydrothermal vent. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003; 69:2985-2993.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 102. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:547-549.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2021 Perez-Rodriguez I, Choi JK, Abuyen K, Tyler M, Ronkowski C, Romero E, Trujillo A, Tremblay J, Viney I, Savalia P, et al. Geothermobacter hydrogeniphilus sp. nov., a mesophilic, iron(III)-reducing bacterium from seafloor/subseafloor environments in the Pacific Ocean, and emended description of the genus Geothermobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4739. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 71, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4850.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Geothermobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🧕 Waite et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Geothermobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Geotermobacter".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 2; JCM: 2; DSM: 1; KCTC: 1.
  • 🧍 The Greek word thermos is an adjective, not a noun as cited in the etymology provided by Kashefi et al. 2005. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

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
    Geothermobacter ehrlichii Kashefi et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Geothermobacter hydrogeniphilus Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004

Assigned by: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.

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