Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8889

Name

Thiobacter Hirayama et al. 2005

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	Incertae sedis 5 Garrity et al. 2007

Members

species	Thiobacter subterraneus Hirayama et al. 2005

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Incertae sedis 5 Garrity et al. 2007
genus Thiobacter Hirayama et al. 2005

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 Thiobacter Hirayama et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8889.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8889.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 16, 2009.

References

Hirayama H, Takai K, Inagaki F, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K. Thiobacter subterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a subsurface hot aquifer. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:467-472. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63389-0 [PubMed].