Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3574

Name

Desulfofrigus Knoblauch et al. 1999

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	Desulfofrigus oceanense Knoblauch et al. 1999
species	Desulfofrigus fragile Knoblauch et al. 1999

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 Desulfofrigus Knoblauch et al. 1999

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 Desulfofrigus Knoblauch et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3574.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3574.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 15, 2009.

References

Knoblauch C, Sahm K, Jørgensen BB. Psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from permanently cold arctic marine sediments: description of Desulfofrigus oceanense gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfofrigus fragile sp. nov., Desulfofaba gelida gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfotalea psychrophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and Desulfotalea arctica sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1631-1643. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1631 [PubMed].
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.