Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4519

Name

Ammonifex Huber et al. 1996 emend. Miroshnichenko et al. 2008

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	Thermoanaerobacteraceae (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010

Members

species	Ammonifex degensii Huber et al. 1996
species	Ammonifex thiophilus Miroshnichenko et al. 2008

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Thermoanaerobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010 emend. Lv et al. 2020
family Thermoanaerobacteraceae (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010
genus Ammonifex Huber et al. 1996 emend. Miroshnichenko et al. 2008

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 Ammonifex Huber et al. 1996 emend. Miroshnichenko et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4519.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4519.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 9, 2009.

References

Miroshnichenko ML, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Kostrikina NA, Chernych N, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Ammonifex thiophilus sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic anaerobic bacterium from a Kamchatka hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2935-2938. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000182-0 [PubMed].
Wiegel J. Family I. Thermoanaerobacteraceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 1225.
Garrity GM, Holt JG. Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 155-166.
Huber R, Rossnagel P, Woese CR, Rachel R, Langworthy TA, Stetter KO. Formation of ammonium from nitrate during chemolithoautotrophic growth of the extremely thermophilic bacterium Ammonifex degensii gen. nov. sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1996; 19:40-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(96)80007-5 [PubMed].