Dehalobacter

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

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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").

Dehalobacter Holliger et al. 1998, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Dehalobacter restrictus Holliger et al. 1998.
Etymology: L. pref. de, from; N.L. n. halogenum [from Swedish, coined by Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848) from Gr. hals halos "salt" + -gen "to produce;" so called because a salt is formed in reactions involving these elements), halogen; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Dehalobacter, a halogen-removing rod-shaped bacterium.
References: VALIDATION LIST N° 66. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 631-632. [HOLLIGER (C.), HAHN (D.), HARMSEN (H.), LUDWIG (W.), SCHUMACHER (W.), TINDALL (B.), VAZQUEZ (F.), WEISS (N.) and ZEHNDER (A.J.B.): Dehalobacter restrictus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra-and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration. Arch. Microbiol., 1998, 169, 313-321.]
Validation List N° 66 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online

Dehalobacter restrictus Holliger et al. 1998, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain PER-K23 = DSM 9455.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: U84497.
Etymology: L. masc. adj. restrictus, limited, restricted, confined, referring to the limited substrate range utilized.
References: VALIDATION LIST N° 66. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 631-632. [HOLLIGER (C.), HAHN (D.), HARMSEN (H.), LUDWIG (W.), SCHUMACHER (W.), TINDALL (B.), VAZQUEZ (F.), WEISS (N.) and ZEHNDER (A.J.B.): Dehalobacter restrictus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra-and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration. Arch. Microbiol., 1998, 169, 313-321.]
Validation List N° 66 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online