Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3567

Name

Desulfococcus 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	Desulfococcaceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Desulfococcus multivorans Widdel 1981
species	Desulfococcus biacutus Platen et al. 1991

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 Desulfococcaceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Desulfococcus 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 Desulfococcus Widdel 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3567.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3567.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 2, 2020.

References

Widdel F. "Dissertation: Anaerober abbau von fettsäuren und benzoesäure durch neu isolierte arten sulfat-reduzier-ender bakterien." Georg-August-Universität, 1980.
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.
Platen H, Temmes A, Schink B. Anaerobic degradation of acetone by Desulfococcus biacutus spec. nov. Arch Microbiol 1990; 154:355-361. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276531 [PubMed].
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 [PubMed].