Desulfofundulus Watanabe et al. 2018
General information
Name
Desulfofundulus
Valid publication
2018
Lineage
Root.
Bacteria.
Firmicutes.
Clostridia.
Clostridiales.
Peptococcaceae.
Desulfofundulus
Nomenclature type
Desulfofundulus kuznetsovii
Etymology
L. pref. <i>de</i> from; L. n. <i>sulfur</i>, sulfur; L. masc. n. <i>fundulus</i>, a kind of sausage; N.L. masc. n. <i>Desulfofundulus</i> a sausage-shaped sulfate-reducer.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Cells are spore-forming rods, motile, strictly anaerobic and thermophilic. Sulfate and thiosulfate serve as electron acceptors.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M021702011117002 | Desulfofundulus australicus | Species | 1566 |
M021702011117001 | Desulfofundulus kuznetsovii | Species | 58135 |
M021702011117003 | Desulfofundulus luciae | Species | 74702 |
M021702011117004 | Desulfofundulus solfataricus | Species | 190967 |
M021702011117005 | Desulfofundulus thermoacetoxidans | Species | 58136 |
M021702011117006 | Desulfofundulus thermobenzoicus | Species | 29376 |
M021702011117007 | Desulfofundulus thermocisternus | Species | 42471 |
M021702011117008 | Desulfofundulus thermosubterraneus | Species | 348840 |
References
1
Nazina, T.N., Ivanova, A.E., Kanchaveli, L.P., and Rozanova, E.P. Desulfotomaculum kuznetsovii sp. nov., a new spore-forming thermophilic methylotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium. Mikrobiologiya (1988) 57:823-827.[PMID:11785135]
2
Validation List No. 35. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1990) 40:470-471.[DOI:10.1099/00207713-40-4-470]
3
Watanabe, M., Kojima, H., and Fukui, M. Review of Desulfotomaculum species and proposal of the genera Desulfallas gen. nov., Desulfofundulus gen. nov., Desulfofarcimen gen. nov. and Desulfohalotomaculum gen. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2018) 2891-2899.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.002915]
[PMID:30028279]