Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3639

Name

Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004 emend. Xu et al. 2021

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Geobacterales Waite et al. 2020

Members

genus	Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995 emend. Waite et al. 2020
genus	Citrifermentans Waite et al. 2020
genus	Geoanaerobacter Xu et al. 2022
genus	Geomesophilobacter Zhang et al. 2021
genus	Geomobilibacter Xu et al. 2021
genus	Geomobilimonas Xu et al. 2022
genus	Geomonas Xu et al. 2020 emend. Itoh et al. 2021 non Geomonas Khan et al. 2020
genus	Geopsychrobacter Holmes et al. 2005
genus	Geotalea Waite et al. 2020
genus	Geothermobacter Kashefi et al. 2005 emend. Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2021
genus	Oryzomonas Xu et al. 2020
genus	Trichlorobacter De Wever et al. 2001 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Desulfuromonadia Waite et al. 2020
order Geobacterales Waite et al. 2020
family Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004 emend. Xu et al. 2021

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 family Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004 emend. Xu et al. 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3639.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3639.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 9, 2021.

References

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