Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3626

Name

Desulfuromusa Liesack and Finster 1994

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	Geopsychrobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Desulfuromusa kysingii Liesack and Finster 1994
species	Desulfuromusa bakii Liesack and Finster 1994
species	Desulfuromusa ferrireducens Vandieken et al. 2006
species	Desulfuromusa succinoxidans Liesack and Finster 1994

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 Desulfuromonadia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfuromonales (sic) Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Geopsychrobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Desulfuromusa Liesack and Finster 1994

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 Desulfuromusa Liesack and Finster 1994. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3626.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3626.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 3, 2020.

References

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Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Desulfuromonaceae 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. 1006.
Vandieken V, Mussmann M, Niemann H, Jørgensen BB. Desulfuromonas svalbardensis sp. nov. and Desulfuromusa ferrireducens sp. nov., psychrophilic, Fe(III)-reducing bacteria isolated from Arctic sediments, Svalbard. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1133-1139. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63639-0 [PubMed].
Liesack W, Finster K. Phylogenetic Analysis of Five Strains of Gram-Negative, Obligately Anaerobic, Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria and Description of Desulfuromusa gen. nov., Including Desulfuromusa kysingii sp. nov., Desulfuromusa bakii sp. nov., and Desulfuromusa succinoxidans sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:753-758. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-4-753.