Deferribacter

Deferribacter is a genus in the phylum Deferribacterota (Bacteria).^[2]

Deferribacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Deferribacterota
Class:	Deferribacteres
Order:	Deferribacterales
Family:	Deferribacteraceae
Genus:	Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997[1]
Type species
Deferribacter thermophilus Greene et al. 1997
Species
D. abyssi D. autotrophicus D. desulfuricans D. thermophilus

Etymology

The name Deferribacter derives from:
Latin pref. de-, from; Latin noun ferrum, iron; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Deferribacter, rod that reduces iron.^[3]

Species

The genus contains 4 species, namely^[3]

• D. abyssi Miroshnichenko et al. 2003; (Latin genitive case noun abyssi, of immense depths, living in the depths of the ocean.)^[4]
• D. autotrophicus Slobodkina et al. 2009; (Neo-Latin masculine gender adjective autotrophicus, autotrophic.)^[5]
• D. desulfuricans Takai et al. 2003; (Neo-Latin participle adjective desulfuricans, reducing sulfur.)^[6]
• D. thermophilus Greene et al. 1997 ((Type species of the genus).; Greek noun thermē (θέρμη), heat; Neo-Latin masculine gender adjective philus (from Greek masculine gender adjective φίλος), friend, loving; Neo-Latin masculine gender adjective thermophilus, heat loving.)^[1]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[7] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[8]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[9][10][11]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[12][13][14]
D. abyssi Miroshnichenko et al. 2003 D. autotrophicus Slobodkina et al. 2009 D. desulfuricans Takai et al. 2003 D. thermophilus Greene et al. 1997	D. autotrophicus D. desulfuricans

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera