Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4322

Name

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002

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	Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994

Type Strain

representative organism

853-15A^T (=DSM 15288 =ATCC BAA-636)

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020
genus Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994
species Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002

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.17119

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4322.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4322.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 24, 2018.

References

Finneran KT, Forbush HM, Gaw VanPraagh CV, Lovley DR. Desulfitobacterium metallireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1929-1935. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02121-0 [PubMed].