Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2050

Name

Sterolibacterium Tarlera and Denner 2003

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	Sterolibacteriaceae Boden et al. 2017

Members

species	Sterolibacterium denitrificans Tarlera and Denner 2003

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 Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
family Sterolibacteriaceae Boden et al. 2017
genus Sterolibacterium Tarlera and Denner 2003

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 Sterolibacterium Tarlera and Denner 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2050.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2050.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 15, 2017.

References

Chun J, Kang JY, Jung YC, Jahng KY. Niveibacterium umoris gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from wetland freshwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:997-1002. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000826 [PubMed].
Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the ‘Proteobacteria’, and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001927 [PubMed].
Tarlera S, Denner EBM. Sterolibacterium denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel cholesterol-oxidizing, denitrifying member of the beta-Proteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1085-1091. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02039-0 [PubMed].