Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1659

Name

Limnobacter Spring et al. 2001 emend. Nguyen and Kim 2017

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Limnobacter thiooxidans Spring et al. 2001
species	Limnobacter alexandrii Duan et al. 2022
species	Limnobacter humi Nguyen and Kim 2017
species	Limnobacter litoralis Lu et al. 2011
species	Limnobacter sp. None 2015

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Limnobacter Spring et al. 2001 emend. Nguyen and Kim 2017

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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Limnobacter Spring et al. 2001 emend. Nguyen and Kim 2017. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1659.


This information was last reviewed on February 21, 2022.

References

Spring S, Kämpfer P, Schleifer KH. Limnobacter thiooxidans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thiosulfate-oxidizing bacterium isolated from freshwater lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1463-1470. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-4-1463 [PubMed].
Duan Y, Jiang Z, Wu Z, Sheng Z, Yang X, Sun J, Zhang X, Yang Q, Yu X, Yan J. Limnobacter alexandrii sp. nov., a thiosulfate-oxidizing, heterotrophic and EPS-bearing Burkholderiaceae isolated from cultivable phycosphere microbiota of toxic Alexandrium catenella LZT09. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:1689-1698. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-020-01473-8 [PubMed].
Lu H, Sato Y, Fujimura R, Nishizawa T, Kamijo T, Ohta H. Limnobacter litoralis sp. nov., a thiosulfate-oxidizing, heterotrophic bacterium isolated from a volcanic deposit, and emended description of the genus Limnobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:404-407. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.020206-0 [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015
Nguyen TM, Kim J. Limnobacter humi sp. nov., a thiosulfate-oxidizing, heterotrophic bacterium isolated from humus soil, and emended description of the genus Limnobacter Spring et al. 2001. J Microbiol 2017; 55:508-513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-017-6645-7 [PubMed].