Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10372

Name

Desulfovirgula Kaksonen et al. 2007

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	Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi Kaksonen et al. 2007

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 Desulfovirgula Kaksonen et al. 2007

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 Desulfovirgula Kaksonen et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10372.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10372.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 15, 2009.

References

Kaksonen AH, Spring S, Schumann P, Kroppenstedt RM, Puhakka JA. Desulfovirgula thermocuniculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfate-reducer isolated from a geothermal underground mine in Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:98-102. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64655-0 [PubMed].