Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1884

Name

Thiobacillus halophilus Wood and Kelly 1995

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	Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Boden et al. 2017

Type Strain

representative organism

204^T (=DSM 6132 =ATCC 49870)

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
family Thiobacillaceae Boden et al. 2017
genus Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Boden et al. 2017
species Thiobacillus halophilus Wood and Kelly 1995

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 Thiobacillus halophilus Wood and Kelly 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1884.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1884.xml

References

Wood AP, Kelly DP. Isolation and characterization of Thiobacillus halophilus sp. nov., a sulphur-oxidising autotrophic eubacterium from a Western Australian hypersaline lake. Arch Microbiol 1991; 156:277-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262998.