Name: Guyparkeria Boden 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Guy.par.ke’ri.a. N.L. fem. n. Guyparkeria, named to honour Mr Cecil David ‘Guy’Parker (1912- 1981), Australian microbiologist who made significant advances in the understanding of sulfur oxidation, concrete corrosion and the taxonomy of the sulfur bacteria

Gender: feminine (stem: Guyparkeri-)

Type species: Guyparkeria halophila (Wood and Kelly 1995) Boden 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Boden R. Reclassification of Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis and Halothiobacillus halophilus to Guyparkeria gen. nov. in the Thioalkalibacteraceae fam. nov., with emended descriptions of the genus Halothiobacillus and family Halothiobacillaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3919-3928.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Wood AP, Kelly DP. Isolation and characterisation of Thiobacillus halophilus sp. nov., a sulphur-oxidising autotrophic eubacterium from a Western Australian hypersaline lake. Arch. Microbiol. 1991; 156:277-280.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Halothiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000. Publication: Kelly DP, Wood AP. Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:511-516.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 2; DSM: 2.

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
    Guyparkeria halophila (Wood and Kelly 1995) Boden 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Guyparkeria hydrothermalis (Durand et al. 1997) Boden 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thioalkalibacteraceae Boden 2017

Assigned by: Boden R. Reclassification of Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis and Halothiobacillus halophilus to Guyparkeria gen. nov. in the Thioalkalibacteraceae fam. nov., with emended descriptions of the genus Halothiobacillus and family Halothiobacillaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3919-3928.

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Record number: 519287