Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4317

Name

Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994

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	Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020

Members

species	Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans Utkin et al. 1994
species	Desulfitobacterium aromaticivorans Kunapuli et al. 2010
species	Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans Sanford et al. 2001
species	Desulfitobacterium frappieri Bouchard et al. 1996
species	Desulfitobacterium hafniense Christiansen and Ahring 1996 emend. Niggemyer et al. 2001
species	Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002
species	Desulfitobacterium sp. None 2015

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020
genus Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994

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 Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4317.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4317.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 24, 2010.

References

Kunapuli U, Jahn MK, Lueders T, Geyer R, Heipieper HJ, Meckenstock RU. Desulfitobacterium aromaticivorans sp. nov. and Geobacter toluenoxydans sp. nov., iron-reducing bacteria capable of anaerobic degradation of monoaromatic hydrocarbons. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:686-695. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.003525-0 [PubMed].
Ezaki T. Family VI. Peptococcaceaee fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 969.
Bouchard B, Beaudet R, Villemur R, McSween G, Lépine F, Bisaillon JG. Isolation and characterization of Desulfitobacterium frappieri sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium which reductively dechlorinates pentachlorophenol to 3-chlorophenol. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:1010-1015. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-4-1010 [PubMed].
Christiansen N, Ahring BK. Desulfitobacterium hafniense sp. nov., an anaerobic, reductively dechlorinating bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:442-448. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-2-442.
Utkin I, Woese C, Wiegel J. Isolation and characterization of Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium which reductively dechlorinates chlorophenolic compounds. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:612-619. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-4-612 [PubMed].
Finneran KT, Forbush HM, Gaw VanPraagh CV, Lovley DR. Desulfitobacterium metallireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1929-1935. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02121-0 [PubMed].
Stackebrandt E. The Emended Family Peptococcaceae and Description of the Families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes: Firmicutes and Tenericutes, Fourth Edition, Volume 1, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, New York, 2014, p. 285-290.
No reference is available 2015
Sanford RA, Cole JR, Löffler FE, Tiedje JM. Characterization of Desulfitobacterium chlororespirans sp. nov., which grows by coupling the oxidation of lactate to the reductive dechlorination of 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate. Appl Environ Microbiol 1996; 62:3800-3808. [PubMed].