Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.608

Name

Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997

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	Deferribacteraceae Huber and Stetter 2002 emend. Spring et al. 2022

Members

species	Deferribacter thermophilus Greene et al. 1997
species	Deferribacter abyssi Miroshnichenko et al. 2003
species	Deferribacter autotrophicus Slobodkina et al. 2009
species	Deferribacter desulfuricans Takai et al. 2003

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 Deferribacteres (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 non Deferribacteres Huber and Stetter 2002
class Deferribacteres Huber and Stetter 2002 non Deferribacteres Garrity and Holt 2021
order Deferribacterales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Deferribacteraceae Huber and Stetter 2002 emend. Spring et al. 2022
genus Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997

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 Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.608.

Source File

10.1601/tx.608.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 20, 2009.

References

Greene AC, Patel BKC, Sheehy AJ. Deferribacter thermophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic manganese- and iron-reducing bacterium isolated from a petroleum reservoir. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:505-509. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-505 [PubMed].
Huber H, Stetter KO. Family I. Deferribacteraceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-466.
Takai K, Kobayashi H, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K. Deferribacter desulfuricans sp. nov., a novel sulfur-, nitrate- and arsenate-reducing thermophile isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:839-846. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02479-0 [PubMed].
Slobodkina GB, Kolganova TV, Chernyh NA, Querellou J, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Deferribacter autotrophicus sp. nov., an iron(III)-reducing bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1508-1512. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.006767-0 [PubMed].
Miroshnichenko ML, Slobodkin AI, Kostrikina NA, L'Haridon S, Nercessian O, Spring S, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Jeanthon C. Deferribacter abyssi sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophile from deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1637-1641. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02673-0 [PubMed].