Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10416

Name

Pelosinus Shelobolina et al. 2007 emend. Moe et al. 2012

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	Sporomusaceae Campbell et al. 2015

Members

species	Pelosinus fermentans Shelobolina et al. 2007
species	Pelosinus defluvii Moe et al. 2012
species	Pelosinus propionicus (Boga et al. 2007) Moe et al. 2012

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 Negativicutes Marchandin et al. 2010
order Selenomonadales Marchandin et al. 2010 emend. Campbell et al. 2015
family Sporomusaceae Campbell et al. 2015
genus Pelosinus Shelobolina et al. 2007 emend. Moe et al. 2012

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 Pelosinus Shelobolina et al. 2007 emend. Moe et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10416.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10416.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 5, 2012.

References

Moe WM, Stebbing RE, Rao JU, Bowman KS, Nobre MF, da Costa MS, Rainey FA. Pelosinus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from chlorinated solvent-contaminated groundwater, emended description of the genus Pelosinus and transfer of Sporotalea propionica to Pelosinus propionicus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1369-1376. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.033753-0 [PubMed].
Campbell C, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Genome-based taxonomic framework for the class Negativicutes: division of the class Negativicutes into the orders Selenomonadales emend., Acidaminococcales ord. nov. and Veillonellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3203-3215. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000347 [PubMed].
Shelobolina ES, Nevin KP, Blakeney-Hayward JD, Johnsen CV, Plaia TW, Krader P, Woodard T, Holmes DE, Vanpraagh CG, Lovley DR. Geobacter pickeringii sp. nov., Geobacter argillaceus sp. nov. and Pelosinus fermentans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from subsurface kaolin lenses. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:126-135. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64221-0 [PubMed].