Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.13164

Name

Thiohalospira Sorokin et al. 2008

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	Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984 emend. Imhoff et al. 2022

Members

species	Thiohalospira halophila Sorokin et al. 2008
species	Thiohalospira alkaliphila Sorokin et al. 2008

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
family Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984 emend. Imhoff et al. 2022
genus Thiohalospira Sorokin et al. 2008

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 Thiohalospira Sorokin et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.13164.

Source File

10.1601/tx.13164.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 19, 2009.

References

Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Muyzer G, Kuenen GJ. Thiohalospira halophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thiohalospira alkaliphila sp. nov., novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, halophilic, sulfur-oxidizing gammaproteobacteria from hypersaline habitats. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1685-1692. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65654-0 [PubMed].