Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3652

Name

Syntrophobacter Boone and Bryant 1984 emend. Chen et al. 2005

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	Syntrophobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Syntrophobacter wolinii Boone and Bryant 1984
species	Syntrophobacter fumaroxidans Harmsen et al. 1998
species	Syntrophobacter pfennigii Wallrabenstein et al. 1996
species	Syntrophobacter sulfatireducens Chen et al. 2005

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 Syntrophobacteria Waite et al. 2020
order Syntrophobacterales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Syntrophobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Syntrophobacter Boone and Bryant 1984 emend. Chen et al. 2005

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 Syntrophobacter Boone and Bryant 1984 emend. Chen et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3652.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3652.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 20, 2009.

References

Boone DR, Bryant MP. Propionate-Degrading Bacterium, Syntrophobacter wolinii sp. nov. gen. nov., from Methanogenic Ecosystems. Appl Environ Microbiol 1980; 40:626-632. [PubMed].
Wallrabenstein C, Hauschild E, Schink B. Syntrophobacter pfennigii sp. nov., new syntrophically propionate-oxidizing anaerobe growing in pure culture with propionate and sulfate. Arch Microbiol 1995; 164:346-352. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02529981.
Harmsen HJ, Van Kuijk BLM, Plugge CM, Akkermans ADL, De Vos WM, Stams AJM. Syntrophobacter fumaroxidans sp. nov., a syntrophic propionate-degrading sulfate-reducing bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1383-1387. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-4-1383 [PubMed].
Chen S, Liu X, Dong X. Syntrophobacter sulfatireducens sp. nov., a novel syntrophic, propionate-oxidizing bacterium isolated from UASB reactors. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1319-1324. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63565-0 [PubMed].
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Syntrophobacteraceae 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. 1021.