Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3665

Name

Syntrophaceae Kuever et al. 2006

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	Syntrophales Waite et al. 2020

Members

genus	Syntrophus Mountfort et al. 1984
genus	Desulfobacca Oude Elferink et al. 1999
genus	Desulfomonile DeWeerd et al. 1991
genus	Smithella Liu et al. 1999

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 Syntrophia Waite et al. 2020
order Syntrophales Waite et al. 2020
family Syntrophaceae Kuever et al. 2006

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 Syntrophaceae Kuever et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3665.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3665.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 3, 2020.

References

Sobieraj M, Boone DR. Genus IV. Smithella Liu, Balkwill, Aldrich, Drake and Boone 1999, 553VP. 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. 1039-1040.
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].
Stams AJM, Elferink JWHO. Genus II. Desulfobacca 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. 1035.
Kuever J, Schink B. Genus I. Syntrophus 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. 1033.
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family II. Syntrophaceae 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. 1033.
DeWeerd KA, Townsend GT, Suflita JM. Genus III. Desulfomonile 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. 1036.