Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25481

Name

Nitrospirillum Lin et al. 2015 emend. Chung et al. 2015

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	Azospirillaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Nitrospirillum amazonense (Magalhães et al. 1984) Lin et al. 2015
species	Nitrospirillum irinus (sic) Chung et al. 2016

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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Azospirillaceae Hördt et al. 2020
genus Nitrospirillum Lin et al. 2015 emend. Chung et al. 2015

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 Nitrospirillum Lin et al. 2015 emend. Chung et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25481.

Source File

10.1601/tx.25481.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 11, 2016.

References

Lin S-Y, Hameed A, Shen F-T, Liu Y-C, Hsu Y-H, Shahina M, Lai W-A, Young C-C. Description of Niveispirillum fermenti gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a fermentor in Taiwan, transfer of Azospirillum irakense (1989) as Niveispirillum irakense comb. nov., and reclassification of Azospirillum amazonense (1983) as Nitrospirillum amazonense gen. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:1149-1162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-014-0176-6 [PubMed].
Chung EJ, Park TS, Kim KH, Jeon CO, Lee H-I, Chang W-S, Aslam Z, Chung YR. Nitrospirillum irinus sp. nov., a diazotrophic bacterium isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Iris and emended description of the genus Nitrospirillum. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:721-729. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-015-0528-x [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].