Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.31496

Name

Nitrosococcus watsonii Campbell et al. 2011

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

Type Strain

representative organism

C-113^T (=JCM 30416)

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 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
species Nitrosococcus watsonii Campbell 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 species Nitrosococcus watsonii Campbell et al. 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.31496.

Source File

10.1601/tx.31496.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 28, 2018.

References

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].