Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4520

Name

Ammonifex degensii Huber et al. 1996

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	Ammonifex Huber et al. 1996 emend. Miroshnichenko et al. 2008

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 10501^T (=KC4)

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 Thermoanaerobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010 emend. Lv et al. 2020
family Thermoanaerobacteraceae (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010
genus Ammonifex Huber et al. 1996 emend. Miroshnichenko et al. 2008
species Ammonifex degensii Huber et al. 1996

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 Ammonifex degensii Huber et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4520.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4520.xml

References

Huber R, Rossnagel P, Woese CR, Rachel R, Langworthy TA, Stetter KO. Formation of ammonium from nitrate during chemolithoautotrophic growth of the extremely thermophilic bacterium Ammonifex degensii gen. nov. sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1996; 19:40-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(96)80007-5 [PubMed].