Name: Sporolituus Ogg and Patel 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spo.ro.li.tu.us. Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed and, in biology, a spore; L. masc. n. lituus, a curved rod, crook; N.L. masc. n. Sporolituus, a spore-forming, curved rod

Gender: masculine (stem: Sporolitu-)

Type species: Sporolituus thermophilus Ogg and Patel 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ogg CD, Patel BK. Sporolituus thermophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a citrate-fermenting thermophilic anaerobic bacterium from geothermal waters of the Great Artesian Basin of Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2848-2853.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:269-270.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Thermosinaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Veillonellaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; JCM: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sporolituus thermophilus Ogg and Patel 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sporomusaceae Campbell et al. 2015

Assigned by: Campbell C, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Genome-based taxonomic framework for the class Negativicutes: division of the class Negativicutes into the orders Selenomonadales emend., Acidaminococcales ord. nov. and Veillonellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3203-3215.

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