Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5765

Name

Sphaerobacter Demharter et al. 1989

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	Thermomicrobiaceae Garrity and Holt 2002

Members

species	Sphaerobacter thermophilus Demharter et al. 1989 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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 Chloroflexi (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004 non Chloroflexi Gupta et al. 2013
class Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2002 emend. Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004 non Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2021
order Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002
family Thermomicrobiaceae Garrity and Holt 2002
genus Sphaerobacter Demharter et al. 1989

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 Sphaerobacter Demharter et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5765.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5765.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 22, 2009.

References

Demharter W, Hensel R, Smida J, Stackebrandt E. Sphaerobacter thermophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. A deeply rooting member of the actinomycetes subdividion isolated from thermophilically treated sewage sludge. Syst Appl Microbiol 1989; 11:261-266.
Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2049-2051. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03028-0 [PubMed].
Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:479-491. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-479.