Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.898

Name

Acidisphaera Hiraishi et al. 2000

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	Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Acidisphaera rubrifaciens Hiraishi et al. 2000

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Acidisphaera Hiraishi et al. 2000

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 Acidisphaera Hiraishi et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.898.

Source File

10.1601/tx.898.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

Sievers M, Swings J. Family II. Acetobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 41.
Hiraishi A, Matsuzawa Y, Kanbe T, Wakao N. Acidisphaera rubrifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium isolated from acidic environments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1539-1546. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-4-1539 [PubMed].