Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.616

Name

Geovibrio Caccavo et al. 2000

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	Geovibrionaceae Spring et al. 2022

Members

species	Geovibrio ferrireducens Caccavo et al. 2000
species	Geovibrio thiophilus Janssen et al. 2002

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 Geovibrionaceae Spring et al. 2022
genus Geovibrio Caccavo et al. 2000

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 Geovibrio Caccavo et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.616.

Source File

10.1601/tx.616.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 24, 2022.

References

Caccavo F, Coates JD, Rossello-Mora RA, Ludwig W, Schleifer KH, Lovley DR, McInerney MJ. Geovibrio ferrireducens, a phylogenetically distinct dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1996; 165:370-376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050340 [PubMed].
Spring S, Rohde M, Bunk B, Spröer C, Will SE, Neumann-Schaal M. New insights into the energy metabolism and taxonomy of Deferribacteres revealed by the characterization of a new isolate from a hypersaline microbial mat. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:2543-2575. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15999 [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.
Janssen PH, Liesack W, Schink B. Geovibrio thiophilus sp. nov., a novel sulfur-reducing bacterium belonging to the phylum Deferribacteres. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1341-1347. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02116-0 [PubMed].