Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3600

Name

Desulfocapsa Janssen et al. 1997

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	Desulfocapsaceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Desulfocapsa thiozymogenes Janssen et al. 1997
species	Desulfocapsa sulfexigens corrig. Finster et al. 2000

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 Desulfobulbia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfobulbales Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfocapsaceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Desulfocapsa Janssen et al. 1997

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 Desulfocapsa Janssen et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3600.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3600.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 9, 2020.

References

Janssen PH, Schuhmann A, Bak F, Liesack W. Disproportionation of inorganic sulfur compounds by the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfocapsa thiozymogenes gen. nov., sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1996; 166:184-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050374.
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Genus II. Desulfocapsa 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. 992.
Finster K, Liesack W, Thamdrup B. Elemental sulfur and thiosulfate disproportionation by Desulfocapsa sulfoexigens sp. nov., a new anaerobic bacterium isolated from marine surface sediment. Appl Environ Microbiol 1998; 64:119-125. [PubMed].
Galushko A, Kuever J. Desulfocastanea gen. 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.