Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3524

Name

Desulfohalobium Ollivier et al. 1991

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	Desulfohalobiaceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Desulfohalobium retbaense Ollivier et al. 1991
species	Desulfohalobium utahense Jakobsen et al. 2006

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 Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfovibrionia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfovibrionales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfohalobiaceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Desulfohalobium Ollivier et al. 1991

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 Desulfohalobium Ollivier et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3524.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3524.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 15, 2009.

References

Ollivier B, Hatchikian CE, Prensier G, Guezennec J, Garcia JL. Desulfohalobium retbaense gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium from sediments of a hypersaline lake in Senegal. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:74-81. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-1-74.
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family III. Desulfohalobiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 948-949.
Jakobsen TF, Kjeldsen KU, Ingvorsen K. Desulfohalobium utahense sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from Great Salt Lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2063-2069. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64323-0 [PubMed].