Name: Thiospirillum jenense (Ehrenberg 1838) Migula 1900 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Ophidomonas jenensis" Ehrenberg 1838

Etymology: jen.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. jenense, pertaining to Jena, Germany, the city where Ehrenberg discovered this organism

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 1112; DSM 216; Ostrau; SMG 216

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JABVCQ010000073 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Migula W. System der Bakterien, Vol. 2. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1900.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Ophidomonas jenensis" Ehrenberg 1838	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Thiospirillum Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Winogradsky S. Beiträge zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Bacterien. Heft I. Zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Schwefelbacterien. Arthur Felix, Leipzig, 1888.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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.
  • 🧍 According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "orphan species with designated type strains that were either not deposited in culture collections or whose type strain is currently not available from a recognized culture collection. Not available in DSMZ.". Publication: Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73.
  • 🧍 The type strain DSM 216 is unavailable. Publication: Trueper HG, Imhoff JF. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF THE PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA: Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.

Parent taxon: Thiospirillum Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Migula W. System der Bakterien, Vol. 2. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1900.

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Record number: 785096