Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3591

Name

Desulfotignum Kuever 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	Desulfotignum balticum Kuever et al. 2001
species	Desulfotignum phosphitoxidans Schink et al. 2002
species	Desulfotignum toluenicum Ommedal and Torsvik 2007

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 Desulfotignum Kuever 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 Desulfotignum Kuever et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3591.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3591.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 10, 2009.

References

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.
Kuever J, Könneke M, Galushko A, Drzyzga O. Reclassification of Desulfobacterium phenolicum as Desulfobacula phenolica comb. nov. and description of strain SaxT as Desulfotignum balticum gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:171-177. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-1-171 [PubMed].
Schink B, Thiemann V, Laue H, Friedrich MW. Desulfotignum phosphitoxidans sp. nov., a new marine sulfate reducer that oxidizes phosphite to phosphate. Arch Microbiol 2002; 177:381-391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-002-0402-x [PubMed].
Ommedal H, Torsvik T. Desulfotignum toluenicum sp. nov., a novel toluene-degrading, sulphate-reducing bacterium isolated from an oil-reservoir model column. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2865-2869. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65067-0 [PubMed].