Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3570

Name

Desulfofaba Knoblauch et al. 1999 emend. Abildgaard et al. 2004

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	Desulfofabaceae Galushko et al. 2021

Members

species	Desulfofaba gelida Knoblauch et al. 1999
species	Desulfofaba fastidiosa Abildgaard et al. 2004
species	Desulfofaba hansenii (Finster et al. 2001) Abildgaard et al. 2004

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 Desulfofabaceae Galushko et al. 2021
genus Desulfofaba Knoblauch et al. 1999 emend. Abildgaard et al. 2004

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 Desulfofaba Knoblauch et al. 1999 emend. Abildgaard et al. 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3570.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3570.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 15, 2021.

References

Abildgaard L, Ramsing NB, Finster K. Characterization of the marine propionate-degrading, sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfofaba fastidiosa sp. nov. and reclassification of Desulfomusa hansenii as Desulfofaba hansenii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:393-399. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02820-0 [PubMed].
Knoblauch C, Sahm K, Jørgensen BB. Psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from permanently cold arctic marine sediments: description of Desulfofrigus oceanense gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfofrigus fragile sp. nov., Desulfofaba gelida gen. nov., sp. nov., Desulfotalea psychrophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and Desulfotalea arctica sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1631-1643. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1631 [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.
Galushko A, Kuever J, Whitman WB. Desulfofabaceae fam. nov. In: Professor William B. Whitman (ed), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, First Edition, Volume 1, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2015.