Desulfobacula is a bacterial genus in the family Desulfobacteraceae.
Species The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely: D. phenolica ( (Bak and Widdel 1988) Kuever et al. 2001; Neo-Latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; Latin feminine gender suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective phenolica, pertaining to phenol.)Reclassification of Desulfobacterium phenolicum as Desulfobacula phenolica comb. nov. and description of strain SaxT as Desulfotignum balticum gen. nov., sp. nov. J Kuever, M Könneke, A Galushko and O Drzyzga, IJSEM, January 2001, vol. 51, no. 1, pages 171-177 (abstract) D. toluolica ( Rabus et al. 2000, (Type species of the genus).; Neo-Latin noun toluol (from Fr. or Sp. tolu, balsam from Santiago de Tolu), toluol, toluene; Latin feminine gender suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective toluolica, pertaining to toluene.)
Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226
See also List of bacterial orders List of bacteria genera
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