Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2107

Name

Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Wang et al. 2016

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	Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017

Members

species	Nitrosococcus nitrosus (Migula 1900) Buchanan 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Nitrosococcus halophilus Koops et al. 1990 emend. Campbell et al. 2011
species	Nitrosococcus oceanus (sic) (Watson 1965) Watson 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Nitrosococcus wardiae Wang et al. 2016
species	Nitrosococcus watsonii Campbell et al. 2011
species	Nitrosococcus sp. None 2015

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 Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017
genus Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Wang et al. 2016

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 Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Wang et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2107.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2107.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 25, 2020.

References

Watson SW. Taxonomic considerations of the family Nitrobacteriaceae Buchanan. Requests for opinions. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1971; 21:254-270. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-21-3-254.
Wang L, Lim CK, Dang H, Hanson TE, Klotz MG. D1FHS, the Type Strain of the Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium Nitrosococcus wardiae spec. nov.: Enrichment, Isolation, Phylogenetic, and Growth Physiological Characterization. Front. Microbio. 2016; 7:512-512. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00512 [PubMed].
Buchanan RE. General Systematic Bacteriology, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1925, p. 1-597.
Koops H-P, Böttcher B, Möller UC, Pommerening-Röser A, Stehr G. Description of a new species of Nitrosococcus. Arch Microbiol 1990; 154:244-248. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00248962.
Watson SW. Genus VI. Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892, 127; Nom. cons. Opin. 23, Jud. Comm. 1958, 169. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 454-455.
Campbell MA, Chain PSG, Dang H, El Sheikh AF, Norton JM, Ward NL, Ward BB, Klotz MG. Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia-oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names 'Nitrosococcus halophilus' and 'Nitrosomonas mobilis'. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2011; 76:39-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.01027.x [PubMed].
Imhoff JF. Family I. Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924, 235 (AL) emend. Imhoff 1984b, 339. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 3-40.
No reference is available 2015