Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2176

Name

Nitrococcus Watson and Waterbury 1971 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 Record	Name Record
family	Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984 emend. Imhoff et al. 2022

Members

species	Nitrococcus mobilis Watson and Waterbury 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
family Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984 emend. Imhoff et al. 2022
genus Nitrococcus Watson and Waterbury 1971 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 Nitrococcus Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2176.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2176.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2009.

References

Oren A. The Family Ectothiorhodospiraceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes: Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria, Fourth Edition, Volume 1, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, New York, 2014, p. 199-222.
Watson SW, Waterbury JB. Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp. Arch Mikrobiol 1971; 77:203-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408114.