Nitrospirae

Nitrospirae is a phylum of bacteria. It contains only one class, Nitrospira, which itself contains one order (Nitrospirales) and one family (Nitrospiraceae). It includes multiple genera, such as Nitrospira, the largest. The first member of this phylum, Nitrospira marina, was discovered in 1985.[1] The second member, Nitrospira moscoviensis, was discovered in 1995.[2][3]

Nitrospirae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Nitrospirae Garrity & Holt 2001
Class:	Nitrospiria
Order:	Nitrospirales
Family:	Nitrospiraceae
Genera
Candidatus Magnetobacterium Spring et al. 1993 Candidatus Magnetoovum Lefevre et al. 2011 Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000 Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986
Synonyms
Nitrospiraeota Oren et al. 2015

Phylogeny

See also: Bacterial taxonomy

The phylogeny based on the work of the All-Species Living Tree Project.[4]

	Leptospirillum   L. ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002     L. ferrooxidans (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000 (type sp.)     Thermodesulfovibrio   T. hydrogeniphilus Haouari et al. 2009       T. aggregans Sekiguchi et al. 2008       T. thiophilus Sekiguchi et al. 2008       T. islandicus Sonne-Hansen and Ahring 2000     T. yellowstonii Henry et al. 1994 (type sp.)

Taxonomy

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LSPN)[5] and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[3]

• Phylum "Nitrospirae" Garrity & Holt 2001 [Nitrospiraeota Oren et al. 2015 ]
  • Class Nitrospiria Oren et al. 2015 ["Nitrospirae"]
    • Order "Nitrospirales"
      • Family "Nitrospiraceae"
        • Genus "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Spring et al. 1993
          • Species "Ca. M. bavaricum" Spring et al. 1993
          • Species "Ca. M. casensis" Lin et al. 2014
        • Genus "Candidatus Magnetoovum" Lefevre et al. 2011
          • Species "Ca. M. mohavensis" Lefevre et al. 2011
          • Species "Ca. M. chiemensis" Kolinko 2014
        • Genus Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000
          • Species L. ferrodiazotrophum ♠ Tyson et al. 2005
          • Species L. rubarum ♠ Aliaga Goltsman et al. 2009
          • Species L. thermoferrooxidans Hippe 2000
          • Species L. ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002
          • Species L. ferrooxidans (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000 (type sp.)
        • Genus Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986
          • Species "Ca. N. bockiana" ♠ Lebedeva et al. 2008
          • Species "Ca. N. inopinata" ♠ Daims et al. 2015
          • Species "Ca. N. nitrificans" ♠ van Kessel et al. 2015
          • Species "Ca. N. nitrosa" ♠ van Kessel et al. 2015
          • Species "Ca. N. salsa" ♠ Haaijer et al. 2013
          • Species N. calida ♠ Lebedeva et al. 2011
          • Species N. defluvii ♠ Nowka et al. 2015 ["Candidatus Nitrospira defluvii" Spieck et al. 2006]
          • Species N. japonica ♠ Ushiki et al. 2013
          • Species N. lenta Nowka et al. 2015
          • Species N. marina Watson et al. 1986 (type sp.)
          • Species N. moscoviensis Ehrich et al. 1995
        • Genus Thermodesulfovibrio Henry et al. 1994 emend. Sekiguchi et al. 2008
          • Species T. aggregans Sekiguchi et al. 2008
          • Species T. hydrogeniphilus Haouari et al. 2009
          • Species T. islandicus Sonne-Hansen and Ahring 2000
          • Species T. thiophilus Sekiguchi et al. 2008
          • Species T. yellowstonii Henry et al. 1994 (type sp.)

Notes:
♠ Strain found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but not listed in the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)

See also

• Nitrospira
• Nitrosomonas
• Nitrobacteraceae
• Nitrobacter
• Nitrogen cycle
• Nitrite
• Nitrate
• List of bacterial orders

References

1. Stanley W. Watson; Eberhard Bock; Frederica W. Valois; John B. Waterbury; Ursula Schlosser (1986). "Nitrospira marina gen. nov. sp. nov.: a chemolithotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium". Arch Microbiol. 144 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1007/BF00454947.
2. Ehrich S, Behrens D, Lebedeva E, Ludwig W, Bock E (1995). "A new obligately chemolithoautotrophic, nitrite-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrospira moscoviensis sp. nov. and its phylogenetic relationship". Arch Microbiol. 164 (1): 16–23. doi:10.1007/BF02568729. PMID 7646315.
3. Sayers; et al. "Nitrospirae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
4. "16S rRNA-based LTP release 123 (full tree)" (PDF). Silva Comprehensive Ribosomal RNA Database. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
5. J.P. Euzéby. "Nitrospirae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2016-03-20.

Further reading

• Lefevre, Christopher T.; Frankel, Richard B.; Abreu, Fernanda; Lins, Ulysses; Bazylinski, Dennis A. (26 Oct 2010). "Culture-independent characterization of a novel, uncultivated magnetotactic member of the Nitrospirae phylum". Environmental Microbiology. 13 (2): 538–549. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02361.x. PMID 20977572.

External links

• Leptospirillum sp.