Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.27540

Name

Acidithrix Jones and Johnson 2022

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	Incertae sedis 174 None 2015

Members

species	Acidithrix ferrooxidans Jones and Johnson 2022

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Acidimicrobiia Norris 2013
subclass Acidimicrobidae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
order Acidimicrobiales Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
family Incertae sedis 174 None 2015
genus Acidithrix Jones and Johnson 2022

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 Acidithrix Jones and Johnson 2022. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.27540.

Source File

10.1601/tx.27540.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 11, 2022.

References

Jones RM, Johnson DB. Acidithrix ferrooxidans gen. nov., sp. nov.; a filamentous and obligately heterotrophic, acidophilic member of the Actinobacteria that catalyzes dissimilatory oxido-reduction of iron. Res Microbiol 2015; 166:111-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmic.2015.01.003 [PubMed].