Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2191

Name

Halothiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000 emend. Boden 2017

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	Halothiobacillaceae Kelly and Wood 2005 emend. Boden 2017

Members

species	Halothiobacillus neapolitanus (Parker 1957) Kelly and Wood 2000 emend. Boden 2017
species	Halothiobacillus halophilus (Wood and Kelly 1995) Kelly and Wood 2000
species	Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis (Durand et al. 1997) Kelly and Wood 2000
species	Halothiobacillus kellyi Sievert 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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
family Halothiobacillaceae Kelly and Wood 2005 emend. Boden 2017
genus Halothiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000 emend. Boden 2017

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 Halothiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000 emend. Boden 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2191.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2191.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 19, 2017.

References

Kelly DP, Wood AP. Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:511-516. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-511 [PubMed].
Sievert SM, Heidorn T, Kuever J. Halothiobacillus kellyi sp. nov., a mesophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Aegean Sea, and emended description of the genus Halothiobacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1229-1237. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-3-1229 [PubMed].
Kelly DP, Wood AP. Family III. Halothiobacillaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 58.