Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2012

Name

Gallionellaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Kojima et al. 2021

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017

Members

genus	Gallionella Ehrenberg 1838 emend. Zavarzin and Hirsch 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Ferrigenium Khalifa et al. 2018
genus	Ferriphaselus Kato et al. 2014
genus	Ferrooxidibacter corrig. Bethencourt et al. 2020
genus	Sideroxyarcus Kato et al. 2022
genus	Sulfuricella Kojima and Fukui 2010
genus	Sulfuriferula Watanabe et al. 2015
genus	Sulfurirhabdus Watanabe et al. 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Gallionellaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Kojima et al. 2021

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 family Gallionellaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Kojima et al. 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2012.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2012.xml

Boden et al. 2017 transferred all child taxa of Sulfuricellaceae Watanabe et al. 2015 into Gallionellaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) via an emendation, effectively resulting in a unification of the taxa.


This information was last reviewed on April 29, 2022.

References

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Bethencourt L, Bochet O, Farasin J, Aquilina L, Borgne TL, Quaiser A, Biget M, Michon-Coudouel S, Labasque T, Dufresne A. Genome reconstruction reveals distinct assemblages of Gallionellaceae in surface and subsurface redox transition zones. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa036 [PubMed].
Kato S, Itoh T, Iino T, Ohkuma M. Sideroxyarcus emersonii gen. nov. sp. nov., a neutrophilic, microaerobic iron- and thiosulfate-oxidizing bacterium isolated from iron-rich wetland sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005347 [PubMed].
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