Dehalogenimonas

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

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Number of species cited in this file: 2
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

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

Dehalogenimonas Moe et al. 2009, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens Moe et al. 2009.
Etymology: L. prep. de, away, off; N.L. n. halogenum, halogen; L. fem. n. monas, unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Dehalogenimonas, dehalogenating monad, reflecting the ability of these bacteria to dehalogenate chlorinated alkanes.
Reference: MOE (W.M.), YAN (J.), NOBRE (M.F.), DA COSTA (M.S.) and RAINEY (F.A.): Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens gen. nov., sp. nov., a reductively dehalogenating bacterium isolated from chlorinated solvent-contaminated groundwater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2692-2697.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Dehalogenimonas alkenigignens Bowman et al. 2013, sp. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain IP3-3 = JCM 17062 = NRRL B-59545.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: JQ994266.
Etymology: N.L. n. alkenum, alkene; L. part. adj. gignens, giving birth to, producing; N.L. part. adj. alkenigignens, producing alkene, because alkenes are produced during anaerobic reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated alkanes.
Reference: BOWMAN (K.S.), NOBRE (M.F.), DA COSTA (M.S.), RAINEY (F.) and MOE (W.M.): Dehalogenimonas alkenigignens sp. nov., a chlorinated-alkane-dehalogenating bacterium isolated from groundwater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2013, 63,1492-1498.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens Moe et al. 2009, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain BL-DC-9 = ATCC BAA-1523 = JCM 15061.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: CP002084 (complete genome).
Etymology: Gr. n. lykanthropos, werewolf; L. part. adj. repellens, repelling; N.L. part. adj. lykanthroporepellens, repelling werewolves, because compounds exhibiting a pungent garlic aroma are produced when these organisms grow in the presence of 1,2,3-trichloropropane as an electron acceptor and sulfide as a reducing agent, garlic being said to repel werewolves in some fiction literature.
Reference: MOE (W.M.), YAN (J.), NOBRE (M.F.), DA COSTA (M.S.) and RAINEY (F.A.): Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens gen. nov., sp. nov., a reductively dehalogenating bacterium isolated from chlorinated solvent-contaminated groundwater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2692-2697.
Original article in IJSEM Online