Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3540

Name

Desulfobacter Widdel 1981

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	Desulfobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Desulfobacter postgatei Widdel 1981
species	Desulfobacter curvatus Widdel 1988
species	Desulfobacter halotolerans Brandt and Ingvorsen 1998
species	Desulfobacter hydrogenophilus Widdel 1988
species	Desulfobacter latus Widdel 1988
species	Desulfobacter psychrotolerans Tarpgaard et al. 2006
species	Desulfobacter vibrioformis Lien and Beeder 1997

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 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
genus Desulfobacter Widdel 1981

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 Desulfobacter Widdel 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3540.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3540.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 27, 2015.

References

Widdel F. New types of the acetate-oxidizing, sulfate-reducing Desulfobacter species, D. hydrogenophilus sp. nov., D. latus sp. nov., and D. curvatus sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1987; 148:286-291. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00456706.
Widdel F. "Dissertation: Anaerober abbau von fettsäuren und benzoesäure durch neu isolierte arten sulfat-reduzier-ender bakterien." Georg-August-Universität, 1980.
Brandt KK, Ingvorsen K. Desulfobacter halotolerans sp. nov., a halotolerant acetate-oxidizing sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from sediments of Great Salt Lake, Utah. Syst Appl Microbiol 1997; 20:366-373.
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Desulfobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 959-960.
Lien T, Beeder J. Desulfobacter vibrioformis sp. nov., a sulfate reducer from a water-oil separation system. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1124-1128. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-4-1124 [PubMed].
Tarpgaard IH, Boetius A, Finster K. Desulfobacter psychrotolerans sp. nov., a new psychrotolerant sulfate-reducing bacterium and descriptions of its physiological response to temperature changes. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2006; 89:109-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-005-9014-1 [PubMed].