Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.33953

Name

Nitrosocosmicus Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016

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 426 Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016

Members

species	Nitrosocosmicus franklandus (sic) Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016
species	Nitrosocosmicus arcticus Alves et al. 2019
species	Nitrosocosmicus exaquare (sic) Sauder et al. 2017
species	Nitrosocosmicus oleophilus (sic) Jung 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 Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Thaumarchaeota (sic) Brochier-Armanet et al. 2021
class Nitrososphaeria Stieglmeier et al. 2014
order Nitrososphaerales Stieglmeier et al. 2014
family Incertae sedis 426 Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016
genus Nitrosocosmicus Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016

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 Nitrosocosmicus Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.33953.

Source File

10.1601/tx.33953.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 13, 2020.

References

Lehtovirta-Morley LE, Ross J, Hink L, Weber EB, Gubry-Rangin C, Thion C, Prosser JI, Nicol GW. Isolation of 'Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus franklandus', a novel ureolytic soil archaeal ammonia oxidiser with tolerance to high ammonia concentration. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2016; 92:fiw057-fiw057. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw057 [PubMed].
Sauder LA, Albertsen M, Engel K, Schwarz J, Nielsen PH, Wagner M, Neufeld JD. Cultivation and characterization of Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus exaquare, an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from a municipal wastewater treatment system. ISME J 2017; 11:1142-1157. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.192 [PubMed].
Jung M-Y, Kim J-G, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Rijpstra WIC, Madsen EL, Kim S-J, Hong H, Si O-J, Kerou M, Schleper C, Rhee S-K. A hydrophobic ammonia-oxidizing archaeon of the Nitrosocosmicus clade isolated from coal tar-contaminated sediment. EMIR 2016; 8:983-992. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12477 [PubMed].
Alves RJE, Kerou M, Zappe A, Bittner R, Abby SS, Schmidt HA, Pfeifer K, Schleper C. Ammonia Oxidation by the Arctic Terrestrial Thaumarchaeote Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus arcticus Is Stimulated by Increasing Temperatures. Front. Microbio. 2019; 10:1571-1571. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01571 [PubMed].