Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.1484
Name
 Winogradsky 1892 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Members
Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Sorokin et al. 1999
Bock et al. 2001
Bock et al. 2001
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2006
  Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
  Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
  Winogradsky 1892 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Nitrobacter Winogradsky 1892 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1484.
Source File
Buchanan 1917 placed Nitrobacter in the Nitrobacteraceae. This genus was included in the Bradyrhizobiaceae by Garrity et al. 2005 and later transferred back to Nitrobacteraceae by Hördt et al. 2020.
This information was last reviewed on March 30, 2020.

References

  1. Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VII. Bradyrhizobiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 438.
  2. Bock E, Sundermeyer-Klinger H, Stackebrandt E. New facultative lithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. Arch Microbiol 1983; 136:281-284. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425217.
  3. Sorokin DY, Muyzer G, Brinkhoff T, Kuenen JG, Jetten MSM. Isolation and characterization of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic Nitrobacter species, N. alkalicus sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1998; 170:345-352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050652 [PubMed].
  4. Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1917; 2:505-66. [PubMed].
  5. Bock E, Koops HP, Moller UC, Rudert M. A new facultatively nitrite oxidizing bacterium, Nitrobacter vulgaris sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1990; 153:105-110.
  6. Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].
  7. No reference is available 2015