Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3640

Name

Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995 emend. Waite et al. 2020

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	Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004 emend. Xu et al. 2021

Members

species	Geobacter metallireducens Lovley et al. 1995
species	Geobacter anodireducens Sun et al. 2014
species	Geobacter argillaceus Shelobolina et al. 2007
species	Geobacter bemidjiensis Nevin et al. 2005
species	Geobacter benzoatilyticus Yang et al. 2022
species	Geobacter bremensis Straub and Buchholz-Cleven 2001
species	Geobacter chapellei Coates et al. 2001
species	Geobacter daltonii Prakash et al. 2010
species	Geobacter grbiciae Coates et al. 2001 emend. Xu et al. 2021
species	Geobacter hydrogenophilus Coates et al. 2001 emend. Xu et al. 2021
species	Geobacter lovleyi Sung et al. 2009
species	Geobacter luticola Viulu et al. 2013
species	Geobacter pelophilus Straub and Buchholz-Cleven 2001
species	Geobacter pickeringii Shelobolina et al. 2007
species	Geobacter psychrophilus Nevin et al. 2005
species	Geobacter soli Zhou et al. 2014
species	Geobacter sulfurreducens Caccavo et al. 1995 emend. Viulu et al. 2013
species	Geobacter thiogenes (De Wever et al. 2001) Nevin et al. 2007
species	Geobacter toluenoxydans Kunapuli et al. 2010
species	Geobacter uraniireducens Shelobolina et al. 2008
species	Geobacter sp. None 2015

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 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

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 Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995 emend. Waite et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3640.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3640.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2022.

References

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Yang G, Li Y, Lin A, Zhuang L. Geobacter benzoatilyticus sp. nov., a novel benzoate-oxidizing, iron-reducing bacterium isolated from petroleum contaminated soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005281 [PubMed].
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Lovley DR, Giovannoni SJ, White DC, Champine JE, Phillips EJ, Gorby YA, Goodwin S. Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other metals. Arch Microbiol 1993; 159:336-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00290916 [PubMed].
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Caccavo F, Lonergan DJ, Lovley DR, Davis M, Stolz JF, McInerney MJ. Geobacter sulfurreducens sp. nov., a hydrogen- and acetate-oxidizing dissimilatory metal-reducing microorganism. Appl Environ Microbiol 1994; 60:3752-3759. [PubMed].
Zhou S, Yang G, Lu Q, Wu M. Geobacter soli sp. nov., a novel dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium isolated from a forest soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3786-3791. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.066662-0 [PubMed].
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No reference is available 2015
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