Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4325

Name

Desulfosporosinus Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Vatsurina et al. 2008

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	Desulfosporosinus orientis (Campbell and Postgate 1965) Stackebrandt et al. 1997
species	Desulfosporosinus acididurans Sánchez-Andrea et al. 2015
species	Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus Alazard et al. 2012
species	Desulfosporosinus auripigmenti (Newman et al. 2000) Stackebrandt et al. 2003
species	Desulfosporosinus burensis Mayeux et al. 2013
species	Desulfosporosinus fructosivorans Vandieken et al. 2017
species	Desulfosporosinus hippei Vatsurina et al. 2008
species	Desulfosporosinus infrequens Hausmann et al. 2019
species	Desulfosporosinus lacus Ramamoorthy et al. 2006
species	Desulfosporosinus meridiei Robertson et al. 2001
species	Desulfosporosinus metallidurans Panova et al. 2021
species	Desulfosporosinus nitroreducens Vandieken et al. 2017
species	Desulfosporosinus youngiae Lee et al. 2009
species	Desulfosporosinus 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 Desulfosporosinus Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Vatsurina et al. 2008

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 Desulfosporosinus Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Vatsurina et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4325.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4325.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

References

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