Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.38880

Name

Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

phylum

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
domain	Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990

Members

class	Deferrisomatia Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfarculia Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfobaccia Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfobacteria Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfobulbia Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfofervidia Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfomonilia Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfovibrionia Waite et al. 2020
class	Desulfuromonadia Waite et al. 2020
class	Dissulfuribacteria Waite et al. 2020
class	Incertae sedis 206 Slobodkina et al. 2017
class	Syntrophia Waite et al. 2020
class	Syntrophobacteria Waite et al. 2020
class	Syntrophorhabdia Waite et al. 2020
class	Thermodesulfobacteria Hatchikian et al. 2002 non Thermodesulfobacteria Garrity and Holt 2021

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this phylum 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

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 phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.38880.

Source File

10.1601/tx.38880.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 19, 2021.

References

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].
No reference is available 2015