Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9283

Name

Geopsychrobacter Holmes et al. 2005

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	Geopsychrobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Geopsychrobacter electrodiphilus Holmes et al. 2005

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 Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfuromonadia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfuromonales (sic) Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Geopsychrobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Geopsychrobacter Holmes et al. 2005

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 Geopsychrobacter Holmes et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9283.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9283.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 13, 2009.

References

Holmes DE, Nicoll JS, Bond DR, Lovley DR. Potential role of a novel psychrotolerant member of the family Geobacteraceae, Geopsychrobacter electrodiphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., in electricity production by a marine sediment fuel cell. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:6023-6030. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.10.6023-6030.2004 [PubMed].
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 [PubMed].