Sulfurisphaera

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

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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").

Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis Kurosawa et al. 1998.
Etymology: L. n. sulfur, sulfur; L. fem. n. sphaera, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Sulfurisphaera, sulfur-metabolizing spherical cells from sulfataric fields.
Reference: KUROSAWA (N.), ITOH (Y.H.), IWAI (T.), SUGAI (A.), UDA (I.), KIMURA (N.), HORIUCHI (T.) and ITOH (T.): Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic acidophile of the order Sulfolobales. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 451-456.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: The Latin word sphaera is in the feminine gender. So, according to Rule 65 (2), the generic name Sulfurisphaera is in the feminine gender, not in the masculine gender as mentioned in the paper by Kurosawa et al. 1998.

Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis Kurosawa et al. 1998, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain TA-1 = DSM 12421 = IFO (now NBRC) 15161 = JCM 9065.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: D85507.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. ohwakuensis, pertaining to Ohwaku Valley, referring to the place of isolation.
Reference: KUROSAWA (N.), ITOH (Y.H.), IWAI (T.), SUGAI (A.), UDA (I.), KIMURA (N.), HORIUCHI (T.) and ITOH (T.): Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic acidophile of the order Sulfolobales. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 451-456.
Original article in IJSEM Online