Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3612

Name

Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Nitrospinaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Nitrospina gracilis Watson and Waterbury 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Nitrospinaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3612.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3612.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 11, 2019.

References

Watson SW. Genus II. Nitrospina Watson and Waterbury 1971, 225. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 452-452.
Watson SW, Waterbury JB. Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp. Arch Mikrobiol 1971; 77:203-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408114.