Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2032

Name

Azospira Reinhold-Hurek and Hurek 2000 emend. Bae et al. 2007

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	Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017

Members

species	Azospira oryzae Reinhold-Hurek and Hurek 2000 emend. Tan and Reinhold-Hurek 2003
species	Azospira inquinata Mikes et al. 2021
species	Azospira restricta Bae et al. 2007

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 Rhodocyclales Garrity et al. 2006
family Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
genus Azospira Reinhold-Hurek and Hurek 2000 emend. Bae et al. 2007

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 Azospira Reinhold-Hurek and Hurek 2000 emend. Bae et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2032.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2032.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

References

Mikes MC, Martin TK, Moe WM. Azospira inquinata sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing bacterium of the family Rhodocyclaceae isolated from contaminated groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005172 [PubMed].
Bae HS, Rash BA, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, Tiago I, da Costa MS, Moe WM. Description of Azospira restricta sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from groundwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1521-1526. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64965-0 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG. Family I. Rhodocyclaceae 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. 887.
Reinhold-Hurek B, Hurek T. Reassessment of the taxonomic structure of the diazotrophic genus Azoarcus sensu lato and description of three new genera and new species, Azovibrio restrictus gen. nov., sp. nov., Azospira oryzae gen. nov., sp. nov. and Azonexus fungiphilus gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:649-659. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-649 [PubMed].