Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3563

Name

Desulfobotulus Kuever et al. 2009

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	Desulfobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Desulfobotulus sapovorans (Widdel 1981) Kuever et al. 2009
species	Desulfobotulus alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2010
species	Desulfobotulus mexicanus Pérez-Bernal et al. 2020

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 Desulfobacteria Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfobacterales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Desulfobotulus Kuever et al. 2009

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 Desulfobotulus Kuever et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3563.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3563.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 29, 2020.

References

Sorokin DY, Detkova EN, Muyzer G. Propionate and butyrate dependent bacterial sulfate reduction at extremely haloalkaline conditions and description of Desulfobotulus alkaliphilus sp. nov. Extremophiles 2010; 14:71-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-009-0288-5 [PubMed].
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Desulfobacteraceae 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. 959-960.
Pérez-Bernal MF, Brito EMS, Bartoli M, Aubé J, Ollivier B, Guyoneaud R, Hirschler-Réa A. Desulfobotulus mexicanus sp. nov., a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from the sediment of an alkaline crater lake in Mexico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3219-3225. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004159 [PubMed].
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Genus IV. Desulfobotulus gen. 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. 970-971.