Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32163

Name

Accumulibacter Hesselmann et al. 1999

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	Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017

Members

species	Accumulibacter phosphatis Hesselmann et al. 1999
species	Accumulibacter aalborgensis Albertsen et al. 2016
species	Accumulibacter delftensis Rubio-Rincón et al. 2019

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 Rhodocyclales Garrity et al. 2006
family Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
genus Accumulibacter Hesselmann et al. 1999

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 Accumulibacter Hesselmann et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32163.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32163.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 14, 2020.

References

Hesselmann RP, Werlen C, Hahn D, van der Meer JR, Zehnder AJ. Enrichment, phylogenetic analysis and detection of a bacterium that performs enhanced biological phosphate removal in activated sludge. Syst Appl Microbiol 1999; 22:454-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(99)80055-1 [PubMed].
Albertsen M, McIlroy SJ, Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, Karst SM, Nielsen PH. "Candidatus Propionivibrio aalborgensis": A Novel Glycogen Accumulating Organism Abundant in Full-Scale Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Plants. Front. Microbio. 2016; 7:1033-1033. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01033 [PubMed].
Rubio-Rincón FJ, Weissbrodt DG, Lopez-Vazquez CM, Welles L, Abbas B, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, van Loosdrecht MCM, Brdjanovic D. "Candidatus Accumulibacter delftensis": A clade IC novel polyphosphate-accumulating organism without denitrifying activity on nitrate. Water Res 2019; 161:136-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.03.053 [PubMed].