Desulfuromonas

Desulfuromonas is a Gram negative bacterial genus from the family of Desulfuromonadaceae.^[1][2][3] Desulfuromonas can reduce elemental sulfur to H₂S.^[4] Desulfuromonas occur in anoxic sediments and saline lakes.^[5]

Desulfuromonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Thermodesulfobacteriota
Class:	Desulfuromonadia
Order:	Desulfuromonadales
Family:	Desulfuromonadaceae
Genus:	Desulfuromonas Pfennig & Biebl 1977[1]
Type species
Desulfuromonas acetoxidans Pfennig & Biebl 1977
Species
D. acetexigens D. acetoxidans D. carbonis D. chloroethenica D. michiganensis D. palmitatis D. svalbardensis "D. versatilis"

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[6]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[7][8][9]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[10][11][12]
Desulfuromonas Desulfuromonas carbonis An & Picardal 2015 Desulfuromonas acetexigens Finster et al. 1994 Desulfuromonas chloroethenica Krumholz 1997 Desulfuromonas michiganensis Sung et al. 2009 species‑group 2 Desulfuromonas D. thiophila Finster et al. 1997 D. acetoxidans Pfennig & Biebl 1977 D. svalbardensis Vandieken et al. 2006	NIT‑T3 "Desulfuromonas versatilis" Xie et al. 2021 "Trichloromonadaceae" "Trichloromonas acetexigens" ((Finster et al. 1997) Waite et al. 2020 Desulfuromonadaceae "Pseudodesulfuromonas thiophila" (Finster et al. 1997) Waite et al. 2020 Desulfuromonas acetoxidans Pfennig & Biebl 1977

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera