Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14597

Name

Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Type Strain

representative organism

SZ^T (=DSM 17278 =ATCC BAA-1151)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Geobacterales Waite et al. 2020
family Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004 emend. Xu et al. 2021
genus Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995 emend. Waite et al. 2020
species Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009

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 species Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14597.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14597.xml

References

Sung Y, Fletcher KE, Ritalahti KM, Apkarian RP, Ramos-Hernández N, Sanford RA, Mesbah NM, Löffler FE. Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. strain SZ, a novel metal-reducing and tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating bacterium. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:2775-2782. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.72.4.2775-2782.2006.