Nitrospirae

Nitrospirae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Nitrospirae
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 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 106 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   Leptospirillum L. thermoferrooxidans Hippe 2000 L. ferrooxidans (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000 L. rubarum ♠ Aliaga Goltsman et al. 2009 L. ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002 L. ferrodiazotrophum ♠ Tyson et al. 2005   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 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.