Name: Carboxydocella thermautotrophica Sokolova et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: therm.au.to.tro.phi.ca. Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; Gr. masc. pron. autos, self; Gr. masc. adj. trophikos, nursing, tending; N.L. fem. adj. thermautotrophica, indicating that the organism grows at elevated temperatures and uses carbon monoxide as sole source for carbon and energy

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 41; DSM 12326; DSM 12356; VKM B-2282

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16S rRNA gene: AY061974 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sokolova TG, Kostrikina NA, Chernyh NA, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Carboxydocella thermautotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, CO-utilizing thermophile from a Kamchatkan hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1961-1967.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:375-376.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Carboxydocella Sokolova et al. 2002. Publication: Sokolova TG, Kostrikina NA, Chernyh NA, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Carboxydocella thermautotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, CO-utilizing thermophile from a Kamchatkan hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1961-1967.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The DSMZ accession number of the type strain should read DSM 12326, not DSM 12356 as cited. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Sokolova et al. 2002, the type strain DSM 12326 is erroneously cited as DSM 12356. — Weiss N. Personal communication, 2002-11-27.

Parent taxon: Carboxydocella Sokolova et al. 2002

Assigned by: Sokolova TG, Kostrikina NA, Chernyh NA, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Carboxydocella thermautotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, CO-utilizing thermophile from a Kamchatkan hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1961-1967.

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Record number: 774476