Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32659

Name

Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

genus	Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994
genus	Dehalobacter Holliger et al. 1998
genus	Desulfosporosinus Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Vatsurina et al. 2008
genus	Paradesulfitobacterium Li et al. 2021
genus	Syntrophobotulus Friedrich et al. 1996

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020

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 family Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32659.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32659.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 6, 2021.

References

Li Y, Yang G, Yao S, Zhuang L. Paradesulfitobacterium ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a Fe(III)-reducing bacterium from petroleum-contaminated soil and reclassification of Desulfitobacterium aromaticivorans as Paradesulfitobacterium aromaticivorans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005025 [PubMed].
Stackebrandt E. The Emended Family Peptococcaceae and Description of the Families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes: Firmicutes and Tenericutes, Fourth Edition, Volume 1, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, New York, 2014, p. 285-290.