Name: Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskyensis Miroshnichenko et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: kro.no.t’sky.en.sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. kronotskyensis, pertaining to Kronotsky National Park, Kamchatka, Russia, from where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 2002; DSM 18902; VKM B-2412

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF100909 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Miroshnichenko ML, Kublanov IV, Kostrikina NA, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Birkeland NK, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskyensis sp. nov. and Caldicellulosiruptor hydrothermalis sp. nov., two extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic, anaerobic bacteria from Kamchatka thermal springs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1492-1496.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1995-1996.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.29984 (N = 4).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Caldicellulosiruptor Rainey et al. 1995

Assigned by: Miroshnichenko ML, Kublanov IV, Kostrikina NA, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Birkeland NK, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Caldicellulosiruptor kronotskyensis sp. nov. and Caldicellulosiruptor hydrothermalis sp. nov., two extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic, anaerobic bacteria from Kamchatka thermal springs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1492-1496.

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Record number: 785830