Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3539

Name

Desulfobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006

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	Desulfobacterales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Members

genus	Desulfobacter Widdel 1981
genus	Desulfamplus Descamps et al. 2017
genus	Desulfatibacillum Cravo-Laureau et al. 2004 emend. Cravo-Laureau et al. 2004
genus	Desulfatiferula Cravo-Laureau et al. 2007
genus	Desulfatirhabdium Balk et al. 2008
genus	Desulfatitalea Higashioka et al. 2013
genus	Desulfobacterium Bak and Widdel 1988
genus	Desulfobacula Rabus et al. 2000 emend. Kuever et al. 2001
genus	Desulfobotulus Kuever et al. 2009
genus	Desulfocella Brandt et al. 1999
genus	Desulfocicer Galushko and Kuever 2021
genus	Desulfococcus Widdel 1981
genus	Desulfoconvexum Könneke et al. 2013
genus	Desulfofaba Knoblauch et al. 1999 emend. Abildgaard et al. 2004
genus	Desulfofrigus Knoblauch et al. 1999
genus	Desulfoluna Suzuki et al. 2008
genus	Desulfomusa Finster et al. 2001
genus	Desulfonatronobacter Sorokin et al. 2012
genus	Desulfonema Widdel 1981
genus	Desulforapulum Galushko and Kuever 2021
genus	Desulforegula Rees and Patel 2001
genus	Desulfosalsimonas Kjeldsen et al. 2010
genus	Desulfosarcina Widdel 1981 emend. Watanabe et al. 2017
genus	Desulfospira Finster et al. 1997
genus	Desulfotignum Kuever et al. 2001
genus	Magnetananas Chen et al. 2015
genus	Magnetoglobus Abreu et al. 2007
genus	Magnetomorum Wenter et al. 2009

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 Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfobacteria Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfobacterales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006

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 Desulfobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3539.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3539.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 16, 2021.

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