Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9219

Name

Desulfovibrio piger (Moore et al. 1976) Loubinoux et al. 2002

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	Desulfovibrio Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Waite et al. 2020

Type Strain

representative organism

VPI C3-23^T (=DSM 749 =ATCC 29098)

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 Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfovibrionia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfovibrionales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfovibrionaceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Desulfovibrio Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Waite et al. 2020
species Desulfovibrio piger (Moore et al. 1976) Loubinoux et al. 2002

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.15543	GOR1

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Desulfovibrio piger (Moore et al. 1976) Loubinoux et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9219.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9219.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 2, 2020.

References

Loubinoux J, Valente FMA, Pereira IAC, Costa A, Grimont PAD, Le Faou AE. Reclassification of the only species of the genus Desulfomonas, Desulfomonas pigra, as Desulfovibrio piger comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1305-1308. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02175-0 [PubMed].