Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4331

Name

Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans Widdel and Pfennig 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Desulfotomaculum Campbell and Postgate 1965 emend. Campbell 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

Göttingen 5575^T (=5575 =VKM B-1644 =KCTC 5769 =DSM 771 =ATCC 49208)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020 non Desulfotomaculaceae Watanabe et al. 2020
genus Desulfotomaculum Campbell and Postgate 1965 emend. Campbell 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans Widdel and Pfennig 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 species Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans Widdel and Pfennig 1977 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4331.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4331.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 23, 2018.

References

Widdel F, Pfennig N. A new anaerobic, sporing, acetate-oxidizing, sulfate-reducing bacterium, Desulfotomaculum (emend.) acetoxidans. Arch Microbiol 1977; 112:119-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00446665 [PubMed].