Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2190

Name

Halothiobacillaceae Kelly and Wood 2005 emend. Boden 2017

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Chromatiales Imhoff 2005

Members

genus	Halothiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000 emend. Boden 2017
genus	Porisulfidus (sic) Lavy et al. 2018
genus	Thioalkalibacter Banciu et al. 2009
genus	Thiofaba Mori and Suzuki 2008
genus	Thiovirga Ito et al. 2005

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Halothiobacillaceae Kelly and Wood 2005 emend. Boden 2017

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 family Halothiobacillaceae Kelly and Wood 2005 emend. Boden 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2190.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2190.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 14, 2019.

References

Imhoff J. Order I. Chromatiales ord. nov. 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. 1-3.
Roman P, Klok JB, Sousa JA, Broman E, Dopson M, Van Zessen E, Bijmans MF, Sorokin DY, Janssen AJ. Selection and Application of Sulfide Oxidizing Microorganisms Able to Withstand Thiols in Gas Biodesulfurization Systems. Environ Sci Technol 2016; 50:12808-12815. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b04222 [PubMed].
Mori K, Suzuki K. Thiofaba tepidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium of the Gammaproteobacteria isolated from a hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1885-1891. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65754-0 [PubMed].
Kelly DP, Wood AP. Family III. Halothiobacillaceae fam. nov. 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. 58.
Lavy A, Keren R, Yu K, Thomas BC, Alvarez-Cohen L, Banfield JF, Ilan M. A novel Chromatiales bacterium is a potential sulfide oxidizer in multiple orders of marine sponges. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:800-814. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14013 [PubMed].