Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.37027

Name

Nitrosospongia Moeller et al. 2019

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	Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017

Members

species	Nitrosospongia ianthellae Moeller et al. 2019

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Crenarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021
class Thermoprotei Reysenbach 2002
order Nitrosopumilales Qin et al. 2017
family Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017
genus Nitrosospongia Moeller et al. 2019

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 Nitrosospongia Moeller et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.37027.

Source File

10.1601/tx.37027.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 13, 2020.

References

Moeller FU, Webster NS, Herbold CW, Behnam F, Domman D, Albertsen M, Mooshammer M, Markert S, Turaev D, Becher D, Rattei T, Schweder T, Richter A, Watzka M, Nielsen PH, Wagner M. Characterization of a thaumarchaeal symbiont that drives incomplete nitrification in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:3831-3854. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14732 [PubMed].