Deferrisoma

Deferrisoma is a genus of bacteria from the phylum Desulfobacterota.^[2][4] It is the only described member of the family Deferrisomataceae, order Deferrisomatales, and class Deferrisomatia. Known Deferrisoma species are thermophilic iron reducers that live on deep-sea and shallow hydrothermal vents.^[5][6]

Deferrisoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Desulfobacterota
Class:	Deferrisomatia Waite et al. 2020[1]
Order:	Deferrisomatales Waite et al. 2020
Family:	Deferrisomataceae Waite et al. 2020
Genus:	Deferrisoma Slobodkina et al. 2012[2]
Type species
Deferrisoma camini Slobodkina et al. 2012
Species[3]
D. camini D. palaeochoriense

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[7][8][9]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[10][11][12]
Deferrisoma D. camini Slobodkina et al. 2012 D. palaeochoriensePerez-Rodriguez et al. 2016	Deferrisoma D. camini

See also

• Deep-sea community
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera