Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3675

Name

Smithella Liu et al. 1999

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	Smithellaceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Smithella propionica Liu et al. 1999
species	Smithella cisternae Qin et al. 2017

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 Syntrophia Waite et al. 2020
order Syntrophales Waite et al. 2020
family Smithellaceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Smithella Liu et al. 1999

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 Smithella Liu et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3675.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3675.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 17, 2019.

References

Sobieraj M, Boone DR. Genus IV. Smithella Liu, Balkwill, Aldrich, Drake and Boone 1999, 553VP. 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. 1039-1040.
Liu Y, Balkwill DL, Aldrich HC, Drake GR, Boone DR. Characterization of the anaerobic propionate-degrading syntrophs Smithella propionica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Syntrophobacter wolinii. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:545-556. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-2-545 [PubMed].
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 [PubMed].
Qin Q-S, Feng D-S, Liu P-F, He Q, Li X, Liu A-M, Zhang H, Hu G-Q, Cheng L. Metagenomic Characterization of Candidatus Smithella cisternae Strain M82_1, a Syntrophic Alkane-Degrading Bacteria, Enriched from the Shengli Oil Field. Microbes Environ. 2017; 32:234-243. https://doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME17022 [PubMed].