Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.597

Name

Leptospirillum ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002 emend. García-López et al. 2019

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	Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000

Type Strain

representative organism

P3a^T (=ATCC 49881 =DSM 14647)

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 Nitrospirota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Nitrospira Garrity and Holt 2001 non Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986
order Nitrospirales Garrity and Holt 2001
family Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2001
genus Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000
species Leptospirillum ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002 emend. García-López et al. 2019

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 Leptospirillum ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002 emend. García-López et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.597.

Source File

10.1601/tx.597.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 17, 2020.

References

Coram NJ, Rawlings DE. Molecular relationship between two groups of the genus Leptospirillum and the finding that Leptospirillum ferriphilum sp. nov. dominates South African commercial biooxidation tanks that operate at 40 degrees C. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:838-845. [PubMed].