Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2005

Name

Nitrosospira Winogradsky and Winogradsky 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Head et al. 1993

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	Nitrosomonadaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Nitrosospira briensis Winogradsky and Winogradsky 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Nitrosospira lacus Urakawa et al. 2015
species	Nitrosospira multiformis (Watson et al. 1971) Head et al. 1995
species	Nitrosospira tenuis (ex Harms et al. 1976) Head et al. 1995

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
family Nitrosomonadaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Nitrosospira Winogradsky and Winogradsky 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Head et al. 1993

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 Nitrosospira Winogradsky and Winogradsky 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Head et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2005.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2005.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 4, 2014.

References

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Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR. Order I. Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen, 1921. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Seventh Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 35-261.
Winogradsky S, Winogradsky H. Études sur la microbiologie du sol. VII. Nouvelles recherches sur les organismes de la nitrification. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1933; 50:350-432.
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Nitrosomonadaceae 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. 864.
Urakawa H, Garcia JC, Nielsen JL, Le VQ, Kozlowski JA, Stein LY, Lim CK, Pommerening-Röser A, Martens-Habbena W, Stah DA, Klotz MG. Nitrosospira lacus sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from sandy lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:242-250. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.070789-0 [PubMed].