Thalassospira

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

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Number of species cited in this file: 5
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

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

Thalassospira López-López et al. 2002, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Thalassospira lucentensis López-López et al. 2002.
Etymology: Gr. fem. n. thalassa, the sea; Gr. fem. n. spira, a spire; N.L. fem. n. Thalassospira, spiral-shaped organism from the sea.
Reference: LÓPEZ-LÓPEZ (A.), PUJALTE (M.J.), BENLLOCH (S.), MATA-ROIG (M.), ROSSELLÓ-MORA (R.), GARAY (E.) and RODRÍGUEZ-VALERA (F.): Thalassospira lucentensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new marine member of the α-Proteobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 1277-1283.
Original article in IJSEM Online

---> Thalassospira López-López et al. 2002 emend. Liu et al. 2007.
Type species: ¤ Thalassospira lucentensis López-López et al. 2002.
Etymology: Gr. fem. n. thalassa, the sea; Gr. fem. n. spira, a spire; N.L. fem. n. Thalassospira, spiral-shaped organism from the sea.
Reference: LIU (C.), WU (Y.), LI (L.), MA (Y.) and SHAO (Z.): Thalassospira xiamenensis sp. nov. and Thalassospira profundimaris sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 316-320.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Thalassospira lucentensis López-López et al. 2002, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain QMT2 = CECT 5390 = DSM 14000.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AF358664.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. lucentensis, pertaining to Lucentum, the Latin name in Roman times for Alicante, a coastal town in the south-east of Spain, which is the nearest town to the site from which the isolate was retrieved.
Reference: LÓPEZ-LÓPEZ (A.), PUJALTE (M.J.), BENLLOCH (S.), MATA-ROIG (M.), ROSSELLÓ-MORA (R.), GARAY (E.) and RODRÍGUEZ-VALERA (F.): Thalassospira lucentensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new marine member of the α-Proteobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 1277-1283.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Thalassospira profundimaris Liu et al. 2007, sp. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain WP0211 = CGMCC 1.3997 = DSM 17430.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AY186195.
Etymology: L. adj. profundus, deep; L. gen. n. maris, from/of the sea; N.L. gen. n. profundimaris, from/of the deep-sea, reflecting from where the type strain was isolated.
Reference: LIU (C.), WU (Y.), LI (L.), MA (Y.) and SHAO (Z.): Thalassospira xiamenensis sp. nov. and Thalassospira profundimaris sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 316-320.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Thalassospira tepidiphila Kodama et al. 2008, sp. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain 1-1B = DSM 18888 = JCM 14578.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AB265822.
Etymology: L. adj. tepidus, lukewarm; N.L. adj. philus -a -um (from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on), friend, loving; N.L. fem. adj. tepidiphila, lukewarm-loving, mesophilic.
Reference: KODAMA (Y.), STIKNOWATI (L.I.), UEKI (A.), UEKI (K.) and WATANABE (K.): Thalassospira tepidiphila sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from seawater. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 711-715.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Thalassospira xiamenensis Liu et al. 2007, sp. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain M-5 = CGMCC 1.3998 = DSM 17429.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AY189753.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. xiamenensis, pertaining to Xiamen, the city where the organism was first isolated.
Reference: LIU (C.), WU (Y.), LI (L.), MA (Y.) and SHAO (Z.): Thalassospira xiamenensis sp. nov. and Thalassospira profundimaris sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 316-320.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Thalassospira xianhensis Zhao et al. 2010, sp. nov.
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain P-4 = CGMCC 1.6849 = JCM 14850.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: EU017546.
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. xianhensis, of or pertaining to Xianhe of Shangdong Province, China, where the type strain was isolated.
Reference: ZHAO (B.), WANG (H.), LI (R.) and MAO (X.): Thalassospira xianhensis sp. nov., a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 1125-1129.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: In the paper by Zhao et al. 2010, the etymology does not mention that the epithet xianhensis is a neo-Latin adjective.