Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.591

Name

Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2001

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Nitrospirales Garrity and Holt 2001

Members

genus	Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986 non Nitrospira Garrity and Holt 2001
genus	Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000
genus	Magnetobacterium Murray and Stackebrandt 1995
genus	Magnetominusculus Lin et al. 2017
genus	Magnetoovum (sic) Lefèvre et al. 2011
genus	Nitrobium Arshad et al. 2017
genus	Thermodesulfovibrio Henry et al. 1994 emend. Sekiguchi et al. 2008

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Nitrospirota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Nitrospira Garrity and Holt 2001 non Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986
order Nitrospirales Garrity and Holt 2001
family Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2001

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 family Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.591.

Source File

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This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

References

Garrity GM, Holt JG. Genus II. Leptospirillum gen. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 453.
Spring S, Schleifer KH. Genus III. 'Candidatus Magnetobacterium' Spring, Amann, Ludwig Schleifer, van Gemerden and Petersen 1993, 2398. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 457-460.
Lefèvre CT, Frankel RB, Abreu F, Lins U, Bazylinski DA. Culture-independent characterization of a novel, uncultivated magnetotactic member of the Nitrospirae phylum. Environ Microbiol 2011; 13:538-549. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02361.x [PubMed].
Arshad A, Dalcin Martins P, Frank J, Jetten MSM, Op den Camp HJM, Welte CU. Mimicking microbial interactions under nitrate-reducing conditions in an anoxic bioreactor: enrichment of novel Nitrospirae bacteria distantly related to Thermodesulfovibrio. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:4965-4977. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13977 [PubMed].
Sekiguchi Y, Muramatsu M, Imachi H, Narihiro T, Ohashi A, Harada H, Hanada S, Kamagata Y. Thermodesulfovibrio aggregans sp. nov. and Thermodesulfovibrio thiophilus sp. nov., anaerobic, thermophilic, sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from thermophilic methanogenic sludge, and emended description of the genus Thermodesulfovibrio. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2541-2548. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000893-0 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BVIII. Nitrospirae phy. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 451.
Lin W, Paterson GA, Zhu Q, Wang Y, Kopylova E, Li Y, Knight R, Bazylinski DA, Zhu R, Kirschvink JL, Pan Y. Origin of microbial biomineralization and magnetotaxis during the Archean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:2171-2176. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614654114 [PubMed].