Desulfobacula Explained

Desulfobacula is a bacterial genus in the family Desulfobacteraceae.

Species

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely:

• D. phenolica ((Bak and Widdel 1988) Kuever et al. 2001, ; Neo-Latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; Latin feminine gender suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective phenolica, pertaining to phenol.)^{[1] [2]}
• D. toluolica (Rabus et al. 2000, (Type species of the genus).; Neo-Latin noun toluol (from Fr. or Sp. tolu, balsam from Santiago de Tolu), toluol, toluene; Latin feminine gender suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective toluolica, pertaining to toluene.)

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

Notes and References

1. Status of strains that contravene Rules 27 (3) and 30 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria. Opinion 81 . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 58 . 7 . 1755–1763 . 2008 . 10.1099/ijs.0.2008/005264-0 . 18599730. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. . free .
2. Reclassification of Desulfobacterium phenolicum as Desulfobacula phenolica comb. nov. and description of strain SaxT as Desulfotignum balticum gen. nov., sp. nov. J Kuever, M Könneke, A Galushko and O Drzyzga, IJSEM, January 2001, vol. 51, no. 1, pages 171-177 (abstract)