Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9285

Name

Geothermobacter Kashefi et al. 2005 emend. Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2021

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	Geothermobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Geothermobacter ehrlichii Kashefi et al. 2005
species	Geothermobacter hydrogeniphilus Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2021

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 Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfuromonadia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfuromonales (sic) Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Geothermobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020
genus Geothermobacter Kashefi et al. 2005 emend. Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2021

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 Geothermobacter Kashefi et al. 2005 emend. Pérez-Rodríguez et al. 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9285.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9285.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2021.

References

Kashefi K, Holmes DE, Baross JA, Lovley DR. Thermophily in the Geobacteraceae: Geothermobacter ehrlichii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic member of the Geobacteraceae from the Bag City hydrothermal vent. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003; 69:2985-2993. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.69.5.2985-2993.2003 [PubMed].
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 [PubMed].
Pérez-Rodríguez I, Choi JK, Abuyen K, Tyler M, Ronkowski C, Romero E, Trujillo A, Tremblay J, Viney I, Savalia P, Amend JP. Geothermobacter hydrogeniphilus sp. nov., a mesophilic, iron(III)-reducing bacterium from seafloor/subseafloor environments in the Pacific Ocean, and emended description of the genus Geothermobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004739 [PubMed].