Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3641

Name

Geobacter metallireducens Lovley et al. 1995

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Type Strain

representative organism

GS-15^T (=DSM 7210 =ATCC 53774)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Geobacterales Waite et al. 2020
family Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004 emend. Xu et al. 2021
genus Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995 emend. Waite et al. 2020
species Geobacter metallireducens Lovley et al. 1995

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.18975	RCH3

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Geobacter metallireducens Lovley et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3641.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3641.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2010.

References

Lovley DR, Giovannoni SJ, White DC, Champine JE, Phillips EJ, Gorby YA, Goodwin S. Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other metals. Arch Microbiol 1993; 159:336-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00290916 [PubMed].