Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3577

Name

Desulfomusa Finster et al. 2001

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	Desulfomusa hansenii Finster et al. 2001

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 Desulfomusa Finster et al. 2001

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 Desulfomusa Finster et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3577.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3577.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 15, 2009.

References

Finster K, Thomsen TR, Ramsing NB. Desulfomusa hansenii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine propionate-degrading, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from Zostera marina roots. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:2055-2061. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-6-2055 [PubMed].