Sulfurospirillum

Sulfurospirillum (/ˌsʌlfɜːroʊspɪˈrɪlʌm/ SULF-ur-oh-spə-RIHL-um) is a genus of the gram-negative, aerotolerant, rod-shaped bacteria in the family Campylobactaeraceae.^[2]

Sulfurospirillum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Campylobacterota
Class:	Campylobacteria
Order:	Campylobacterales
Family:	Campylobacteraceae
Genus:	Sulfurospirillum Wolfe & Penning 1977[1]
Type species
Sulfurospirillum deleyianum Schumacher, Kroneck & Pfennig 1993
Species
See text
Synonyms
Dehalospirillum Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002 "Geospirillum" Lonergan et al. 1996

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[3] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[4]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[5][6][7]

120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[8][9][10]

Sulfurospirillum "S. alkalitolerans" Sorokin et al. 2013[11] "S. tamanensis" Frolova et al. 2023[12] S. arcachonense Finster et al. 1997[13] S. cavolei Kodama, Ha & Watanabe 2007[14] S. barnesii Stolz et al. 1999[15] S. deleyianum Schumacher, Kroneck & Pfennig 1993[16] S. diekertiae Jin et al. 2023 S. multivorans (Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002) Luijten et al. 2003[17] S. arsenophilum Stolz et al. 1999[18] S. halorespirans Luitjen et al. 2003[17]

Sulfurospirillum S. arcachonense S. cavolei S. barnesii S. deleyianum S. arsenophilum S. oryzae Xie et al. 2024 S. diekertiae S. halorespirans S. multivorans

Unassigned Sulfurospirillum species:

• "S. carboxydovorans" Jensen & Finster 2005^[19]
• "S. tacomaensis" Pietari 2002^[20]

Details

Many species are microaerophillic, and are thus found in soil, groundwater, the deep sea, marine surface sediments, tube worm guts, and polluted environments.^[21] Many species can grow on toxic compounds such as arsenate and selenate, and in fact flourish in contaminated sites.^[21] The Sulfurospirillum genus contains the only species on the planet that can respire organohalides.^[21] No species in the Sulfurospirillum genus have been found to be pathogenic thus far.

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera