Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5086

Name

Sulfobacillus Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991 emend. Johnson et al. 2008

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	Incertae sedis 44 None 2015

Members

species	Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991
species	Sulfobacillus acidophilus Norris et al. 1996
species	Sulfobacillus benefaciens Johnson et al. 2009
species	Sulfobacillus disulfidooxidans Dufresne et al. 1996
species	Sulfobacillus harzensis Zhang et al. 2021
species	Sulfobacillus sibiricus Melamud et al. 2006
species	Sulfobacillus thermotolerans Bogdanova et al. 2006

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Incertae sedis 44 None 2015
genus Sulfobacillus Golovacheva and Karavaiko 1991 emend. Johnson et al. 2008

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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This information was last reviewed on August 6, 2021.

References

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