Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3656

Name

Desulfacinum Rees et al. 1995 emend. Sievert and Kuever 2000

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	Syntrophobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Desulfacinum infernum Rees et al. 1995
species	Desulfacinum hydrothermale Sievert and Kuever 2000
species	Desulfacinum subterraneum Rozanova et al. 2001

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 Syntrophobacteria Waite et al. 2020
order Syntrophobacterales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Syntrophobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Desulfacinum Rees et al. 1995 emend. Sievert and Kuever 2000

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 Desulfacinum Rees et al. 1995 emend. Sievert and Kuever 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3656.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3656.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 11, 2015.

References

Rozanova EP, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Lysenko AM, Mityushina LL, Yusupov SK, Belyaev SS. Desulfacinum subterraneum sp. nov., a new thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a high-temperature oil field. Microbiology (English translation of Mikrobiologiya) 2001; 70:466-471. [PubMed].
Sievert SM, Kuever J. Desulfacinum hydrothermale sp. nov., a thermophilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium from geothermally heated sediments near Milos Island (Greece). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1239-1246. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-3-1239 [PubMed].
Rees GN, Grassia GS, Sheehy AJ, Dwivedi PP, Patel BKC. Desulfacinum infernum gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium from a petroleum reservoir. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:85-89. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-1-85.
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Syntrophobacteraceae 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. 1021.