Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1486

Name

Nitrobacter alkalicus Sorokin et al. 1999

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	Nitrobacter Winogradsky 1892 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

AN1^T (=LMD 97.163)

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Nitrobacteraceae Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Nitrobacter Winogradsky 1892 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Nitrobacter alkalicus Sorokin et al. 1999

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 Nitrobacter alkalicus Sorokin et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1486.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1486.xml

References

Sorokin DY, Muyzer G, Brinkhoff T, Kuenen JG, Jetten MSM. Isolation and characterization of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic Nitrobacter species, N. alkalicus sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1998; 170:345-352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050652 [PubMed].