Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9425

Name

Thiovirga Ito 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	Thioalkalibacteraceae Boden 2017

Members

species	Thiovirga sulfuroxydans Ito 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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
family Thioalkalibacteraceae Boden 2017
genus Thiovirga Ito 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 Thiovirga Ito et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9425.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9425.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 16, 2009.

References

Ito T, Sugita K, Yumoto I, Nodasaka Y, Okabe S. Thiovirga sulfuroxydans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a microaerobic waste-water biofilm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1059-1064. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63467-0 [PubMed].
Boden R. Reclassification of Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis and Halothiobacillus halophilus to Guyparkeria gen. nov. in the Thioalkalibacteraceae fam. nov., with emended descriptions of the genus Halothiobacillus and family Halothiobacillaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3919-3928. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002222 [PubMed].
Mori K, Suzuki K. Thiofaba tepidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium of the Gammaproteobacteria isolated from a hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1885-1891. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65754-0 [PubMed].