Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2040

Name

Ferribacterium Cummings et al. 2000

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	Azonexaceae Boden et al. 2017

Members

species	Ferribacterium limneticum Cummings et al. 2000

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 Azonexaceae Boden et al. 2017
genus Ferribacterium Cummings et al. 2000

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 Ferribacterium Cummings et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2040.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2040.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 14, 2009.

References

Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the ‘Proteobacteria’, and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001927 [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.
Cummings DE, Caccavo F, Spring S, Rosenzweig RF. Ferribacterium limneticum, gen. nov., sp. nov., an Fe(III)-reducing microorganism isolated from mining-impacted freshwater lake sediments. Arch Microbiol 1999; 171:183-188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050697.