Name: Salinisphaera hydrothermalis Crespo-Medina et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hy.dro.ther.ma’lis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. hydrothermalis, hydrothermal, pertaining to a hydrothermal vent

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 21483; EPR70; JCM 15514

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16S rRNA gene: EU740416 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Crespo-Medina M, Chatziefthimiou A, Cruz-Matos R, Perez-Rodriguez I, Barkay T, Lutz RA, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Salinisphaera hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic, halotolerant, facultatively autotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1497-1503.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2131-2132.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Salinisphaera Antunes et al. 2003

Assigned by: Crespo-Medina M, Chatziefthimiou A, Cruz-Matos R, Perez-Rodriguez I, Barkay T, Lutz RA, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Salinisphaera hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic, halotolerant, facultatively autotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1497-1503.

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Record number: 787926