Nitrospirae

Nitrospirae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Nitrospirae Garrity and Holt, 2001
Class:	Nitrospira
Order:	Nitrospirales
Family:	Nitrospiraceae
Genera
Candidatus Magnetobacterium Spring et al. 1993 Candidatus Magnetoovum Lefevre et al. 2011 Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000 Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986 Thermodesulfovibrio Henry et al. 1994 emend. Sekiguchi et al. 2008

Nitrospirae is a phylum of bacteria. It contains only one class, Nitrospira, which itself contains one order (Nitrospirales) and one family (Nitrospiraceae). It includes multiple genera, such as Nitrospira, the largest. The first member of this phylum, Nitrospira marina, was discovered in 1985. The second member of this phylum, Thermodesulfovibrio yellowstonii, was discovered in 1994. The third member, Nitrospira moscoviensis, was discovered in 1995.

Phylogeny

See also: Bacterial taxonomy

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LSPN) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 111 by The All-Species Living Tree Project.

?Candidatus Magnetobacterium bavaricum Spring et al. 1993 ?Candidatus Magnetoovum mohavensis Lefevre et al. 2011 Thermodesulfovibrio T. hydrogeniphilus Haouari et al. 2009 T. aggregans Sekiguchi et al. 2008 T. thiophilus Sekiguchi et al. 2008 T. islandicus Sonne-Hansen and Ahring 2000 T. yellowstonii Henry et al. 1994 (type sp.) Leptospirillum ?L. ferrodiazotrophum ♠ Tyson et al. 2005 ?L. rubarum ♠ Aliaga Goltsman et al. 2009 ?L. thermoferrooxidans Hippe 2000 L. ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002 L. ferrooxidans (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000 (type sp.) Nitrospira ?Candidatus N. bockiana Lebedeva et al. 2008 ?Candidatus N. defluvii Spieck et al. 2006 ?N. calida ♠ Lebedeva et al. 2011 N. marina Watson et al. 1986 (type sp.) N. moscoviensis Ehrich et al. 1995

Notes:
♠ Strain found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but not listed in the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)

External links

• Leptospirillum sp.

See also

• Nitrospira
• Nitrosomonas
• Nitrobacteraceae
• Nitrobacter
• Nitrogen cycle
• Nitrite
• Nitrate