Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3605

Name

Desulforhopalus Isaksen and Teske 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	Desulfocapsaceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Desulforhopalus vacuolatus Isaksen and Teske 1999
species	Desulforhopalus singaporensis Lie 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 Desulforhopalus Isaksen and Teske 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 Desulforhopalus Isaksen and Teske 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3605.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3605.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 3, 2020.

References

Lie TJ, Clawson ML, Godchaux W, Leadbetter ER. Sulfidogenesis from 2-aminoethanesulfonate (taurine) fermentation by a morphologically unusual sulfate-reducing bacterium, Desulforhopalus singaporensis sp. nov. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:3328-3334. [PubMed].
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Genus IV. Desulforhopalus 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. 995.
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 [PubMed].
Isaksen MF, Teske A. Desulforhopalus vacuolatus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new moderately psychrophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium with gas vacuoles isolated from a temperate estuary. Arch Microbiol 1996; 166:160-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050371.