Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1855

Name

Sphaerotilus Kützing 1833 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gridneva et al. 2011

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	Incertae sedis 5 Garrity et al. 2007

Members

species	Sphaerotilus natans Kützing 1833 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gridneva et al. 2011
species	Sphaerotilus hippei Gridneva et al. 2011
species	Sphaerotilus montanus Gridneva et al. 2011
species	Sphaerotilus sulfidivorans (Gridneva et al. 2011) Grabovich et al. 2021

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Incertae sedis 5 Garrity et al. 2007
genus Sphaerotilus Kützing 1833 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gridneva et al. 2011

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 Sphaerotilus Kützing 1833 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gridneva et al. 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1855.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1855.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 27, 2021.

References

Kützing FT. Beitrag zur Kenntnis über die Entstehung und Metamorphose der niedern vegetabilischen Organismen, nebst einer systematischen Zusammenstellung der hierher gehörigen niedern Algenformen. Linnaea 1833; 8:335-387.
Grabovich MY, Smolyakov DD, Beletsky AV, Mardanov AV, Gureeva MV, Markov ND, Rudenko TS, Ravin NV. Reclassification of Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans Gridneva et al. 2011 as Sphaerotilus sulfidivorans sp. nov. and comparative genome analysis of the genus Sphaerotilus. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:1595-1599. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-020-02158-6 [PubMed].
Gridneva E, Chernousova E, Dubinina G, Akimov V, Kuever J, Detkova E, Grabovich M. Taxonomic investigation of representatives of the genus Sphaerotilus: descriptions of Sphaerotilus montanus sp. nov., Sphaerotilus hippei sp. nov., Sphaerotilus natans subsp. natans subsp. nov. and Sphaerotilus natans subsp. sulfidivorans subsp. nov., and an emended description of the genus Sphaerotilus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:916-925. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.023887-0 [PubMed].