Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.30605

Name

Desulfosarcina alkanivorans Watanabe et al. 2017

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Desulfosarcina Widdel 1981 emend. Watanabe et al. 2017

Type Strain

representative organism

PL12^T (=JCM 31728 =DSM 103901)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfobacteria Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfobacterales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfosarcinaceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Desulfosarcina Widdel 1981 emend. Watanabe et al. 2017
species Desulfosarcina alkanivorans Watanabe et al. 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 species Desulfosarcina alkanivorans Watanabe et al. 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.30605.

Source File

10.1601/tx.30605.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 8, 2017.

References

Watanabe M, Higashioka Y, Kojima H, Fukui M. Desulfosarcina widdelii sp. nov. and Desulfosarcina alkanivorans sp. nov., hydrocarbon-degrading sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from marine sediment and emended description of the genus Desulfosarcina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2994-2997. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002062 [PubMed].