Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10369

Name

Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Desulfitibacteraceae Lv et al. 2020

Members

species	Desulfitibacter alkalitolerans Nielsen et al. 2006

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Moorellales Lv et al. 2020
family Desulfitibacteraceae Lv et al. 2020
genus Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10369.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10369.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 24, 2018.

References

Lv X-M, Yang M, Dai L-R, Tu B, Chang C, Huang Y, Deng Y, Lawson PA, Zhang H, Cheng L, Tang Y-Q. Zhaonella formicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic formate-utilizing bacterium isolated from Shengli oilfield, and proposal of four novel families and Moorellales ord. nov. in the phylum Firmicutes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3361-3373. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004178 [PubMed].
Nielsen MB, Kjeldsen KU, Ingvorsen K. Desulfitibacter alkalitolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, alkalitolerant, sulfite-reducing bacterium isolated from a district heating plant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2831-2836. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64356-0 [PubMed].