Name: Marinithermus Sako et al. 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ma.ri.ni.ther.mus. L. masc. adj. marinus, of the sea; Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; N.L. masc. n. Marinithermus, an organism living in marine hot places

Gender: masculine (stem: Marinitherm-)

Type species: Marinithermus hydrothermalis Sako et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sako Y, Nakagawa S, Takai K, Horikoshi K. Marinithermus hydrothermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly aerobic, thermophilic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:59-65.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:629-630.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Marinithermaceae 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 family Marinithermaceae 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Marinither".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 The gender of the genus name Marinithermus is not given in the paper by Sako et al. 2003. According to Rule 65(2), Marinithermus must be in the masculine gender. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.

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
    Marinithermus hydrothermalis Sako et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002

Assigned by: Miroshnichenko ML, L'Haridon S, Jeanthon C, Antipov AN, Kostrikina NA, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Spring S, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Oceanithermus profundus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, facultatively chemolithoheterotrophic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:747-752.

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