Genus Dethiobacter

Name: Dethiobacter Sorokin et al. 2008

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: De.thi.o.bac’ter. L. prep. de, from, off, away; Gr. neut. n. theîon, sulfur; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Dethiobacter, rod-shaped bacterium that reduces sulfur compounds

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Dethiobacter-), de-t^hi-o-BAK-ter

Type species: Dethiobacter alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Mussmann M, Muyzer G. Dethiobacter alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov., and Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov.: two novel representatives of reductive sulfur cycle from soda lakes. Extremophiles 2008; 12:431-439. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 123. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1993-1994.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Dethiobacteria Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Dethiobacteraceae Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-2. 🇳🇱
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Dethiobacterales Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacterales ord. nov. In: Trujillo ME, Dedysh S, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Kämpfer P, Rainey FA, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1. 🇳🇱
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this genus to the class Dethiobacteria Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this genus to the family Dethiobacteraceae Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-2. 🇳🇱
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this genus to the order Dethiobacterales Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacterales ord. nov. In: Trujillo ME, Dedysh S, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Kämpfer P, Rainey FA, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1. 🇳🇱
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: UNIQEM: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Dethiobacter alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993

Assigned by: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Mussmann M, Muyzer G. Dethiobacter alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov., and Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov.: two novel representatives of reductive sulfur cycle from soda lakes. Extremophiles 2008; 12:431-439. 🇷🇺

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.517546Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 517546