Tepidibacter Slobodkin et al. 2003
General information
Name
Tepidibacter
Valid publication
2003
Nomenclature type
Tepidibacter thalassicus
Etymology
L. adj. <i>tepidus</i>, warm; N.L. masc. n. <i>bacter</i>, rod; N.L. masc. n. <i>Tepidibacter</i>, a warm rod.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Rod-shaped, endospore-forming (eu)bacterium. Anaerobic and moderately thermophilic. Neutrophilic. Gram-positive type cell wall. Grows organotrophically on a number of proteinaceous substrates and carbohydrates. Reduces elemental sulfur. The DNA G+C content of the type species is 24 mol% (Tm).
Emendation
Emendation 1
1: Anaerobic or aerotolerant, and moderately thermophilic or mesophilic.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M021702011314002 | Tepidibacter formicigenes | Species | 227138 |
M021702011314003 | Tepidibacter mesophilus | Species | 655607 |
M021702011314001 | Tepidibacter thalassicus | Species | 214905 |
References
1
Slobodkin, A.I., Tourova, T.P., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Jeanthon, C., and Jones, B.E. Tepidibacter thalassicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic, anaerobic, fermentative bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2003) 53:1131-1134.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.02600-0]
[PMID:12892139]
2
Tan, H.-Q., Wu, X.-Y., Zhang, X.-Q., Wu, M., and Zhu, X.-F. Tepidibacter mesophilus sp. nov., a mesophilic fermentative anaerobe isolated from soil polluted by crude oil, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacter. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2012) 62:66-70.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.027409-0]
[PMID:21335504]