Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9374

Name

Nitratifractor Nakagawa 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	Nautiliaceae Miroshnichenko et al. 2004

Members

species	Nitratifractor salsuginis Nakagawa 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 Epsilonproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Nautiliales Miroshnichenko et al. 2004
family Nautiliaceae Miroshnichenko et al. 2004
genus Nitratifractor Nakagawa 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 Nitratifractor Nakagawa et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9374.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9374.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2009.

References

Nakagawa S, Takai K, Inagaki F, Horikoshi K, Sako Y. Nitratiruptor tergarcus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nitratifractor salsuginis gen. nov., sp. nov., nitrate-reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the epsilon-Proteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal system in the Mid-Okinawa Trough. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:925-933. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63480-0 [PubMed].