Fervidibacter antarcticus sp. nov.
Submitted by Herbold, Craig William
Species Fervidibacter antarcticus
- Etymology
- [an.tar'cti.cus] L. masc. adj. antarcticus, referring to the increased abundance of this organism at the Antarctic province
- Nomenclatural type
- NCBI Assembly: GCA_040290365.1 Ts
- Description
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A species of Fervidibacter found in soils heated by volcanic activity (65 degree C) on Mt. Erebus in Antarctica. Metabolism is predicted to be typical of Fervidibacter, a globally distributed genus of thermophilic polysaccharide degraders.
- Classification
- Bacteria » Armatimonadota » Fervidibacteria » Fervidibacterales » Fervidibacteraceae » Fervidibacter » Fervidibacter antarcticus
- References
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Effective publication:
Herbold et al., 2024 [1]
Assigned taxonomically: Nou et al., 2024 [2] - Registry URL
- https://seqco.de/i:49649
References
- Herbold et al. (2024). Nutritional niches of potentially endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium elucidated through metagenomics. Environmental Microbiome. DOI:10.1186/s40793-024-00655-5
- Nou et al. (2024). Genome-guided isolation of the hyperthermophilic aerobe Fervidibacter sacchari reveals conserved polysaccharide metabolism in the Armatimonadota. Nature Communications. DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-53784-3
Register List Certificate of Validation
On behalf of the Committee on the Systematics of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (SeqCode Committee), we hereby certify that the Register List seqco.de/r:gtqmfi86 submitted by Herbold, Craig William and including 1 new name has been successfully validated.
Date of Priority:
2024-12-22 02:48 UTC
DOI: 10.57973/seqcode.r:gtqmfi86
