Caldicoprobacter

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Caldicoprobacter

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Caldicoprobacter Yokoyama et al. 2010, gen. nov. (Type genus of the family ¤ Caldicoprobacteraceae Yokoyama et al. 2010).
Type species: ¤ Caldicoprobacter oshimai Yokoyama et al. 2010.
Etymology: L. adj. caldus, hot; Gr. n. kopros, dung, N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Caldicoprobacter, a rod from dung growing at elevated temperatures.
Reference: YOKOYAMA (H.), WAGNER (I.D.) and WIEGEL (J.): Caldicoprobacter oshimai gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, xylanolytic, extremely thermophilic bacterium isolated from sheep faeces, and proposal of Caldicoprobacteraceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 67-71.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Caldicoprobacter oshimai Yokoyama et al. 2010, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain JW/HY-331 = ATCC BAA-1711 = DSM 21659.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB450762.
Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. oshimai, of Oshima, named after the Japanese microbiologist Tairo Oshima, in honour of his many contributions to our knowledge of thermophiles and their biochemistry.
Reference: YOKOYAMA (H.), WAGNER (I.D.) and WIEGEL (J.): Caldicoprobacter oshimai gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, xylanolytic, extremely thermophilic bacterium isolated from sheep faeces, and proposal of Caldicoprobacteraceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 67-71.
Original article in IJSEM Online