Name: Meiothermus Nobre et al. 1996
Etymology: Me.io.ther.mus. Gr. pref. meio-, less; Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; N.L. masc. n. Meiothermus, to indicate an organism in a less hot place
Gender: masculine (stem: Meiotherm-)
Type species: Meiothermus ruber (Loginova et al. 1984 ex Loginova et al. 1975) Nobre et al. 1996
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication: Nobre MF, Trüper HG, Da Costa MS. Transfer of Thermus ruber (Loginova et al. 1984), Thermus silvanus (Tenreiro et al. 1995), and Thermus chliarophilus (Tenreiro et al. 1995) to Meiothermus gen. nov. as Meiothermus ruber comb. nov., Meiothermus silvanus comb. nov., and Meiothermus chliarophilus comb. nov., respectively, and emendation of the genus Thermus. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1996; 46:604-606.
IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:838.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 14
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Meiothermus cateniformans Zhang et al. 2010 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Meiothermus cerbereus Chung et al. 1997 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Meiothermus chliarophilus (Tenreiro et al. 1995) Nobre et al. 1996 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Meiothermus granaticius Albuquerque et al. 2010 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Meiothermus hypogaeus Mori et al. 2012 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Meiothermus luteus Habib et al. 2017 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
"Meiothermus rosaceus" Chen et al. 2002 | not validly published | preferred name (not correct name) |
Meiothermus roseus Ming et al. 2016 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Meiothermus ruber (Loginova et al. 1984 ex Loginova et al. 1975) Nobre et al. 1996 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Meiothermus rufus Albuquerque et al. 2010 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Meiothermus silvanus (Tenreiro et al. 1995) Nobre et al. 1996 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Meiothermus taiwanensis Chen et al. 2002 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Meiothermus terrae Yu et al. 2014 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Meiothermus timidus Pires et al. 2005 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Parent taxon: Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002
Assigned by: da Costa MS, Rainey FA. Family I. Thermaceae fam. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 403-420.
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