Peptococcaceae

Vegetative cells of Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans, from Spring et al. (2009).

Belongs within: Clostridium.

The Peptococcaceae are a group of obligately anaerobic bacteria found in a variety of habitats such as in association with human or animal tissue, or in soils.

Peptococcaceae
    |--Peptococcus niger GH01a, PF99
    |--Anaeroarcus GH01a
    |--Anaerosinus GH01a
    |--Anaerovibrio GH01a
    |--Carboxydothermus GH01a
    |--Dehalobacter GH01a
    |--Dendrosporobacter GH01a
    |--Desulfonispora GH01a
    |--Desulfosporosinus orientis GH01a, MK03
    |--Succinispira GH01a
    |--Syntrophobotulus GH01a
    |--Thermoterrabacterium GH01a
    |--Desulfitobacterium GH01a
    |    |--D. chlororespirans Sanford et al. 2001 JC08
    |    |--D. dehalogenans MK03
    |    `--D. metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002 JC08
    `--Desulfotomaculum GH01a
         |  i. s.: D. auripigmentum GH01c
         |         D. guttoideum PK03
         |         D. thermoacidovorans GH01b
         |--+--D. acetoxidans MK03
         |  `--+--D. putei MK03
         |     `--D. ruminis MK03
         `--+--D. geothermicum MK03
            `--D. thermobenzoicum MK03
                 |--D. t. ssp. thermobenzoicum JC08
                 `--D. t. ssp. thermosyntrophicum Plugge et al. 2002 JC08

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[GH01a] Garrity, G. M., & J. G. Holt. 2001a. The road map to the Manual. In: Boone, D. R., R. W. Castenholz & G. M. Garrity (eds) Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2nd ed. vol. 1. The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria pp. 119–166. Springer.

[GH01b] Garrity, G. M., & J. G. Holt. 2001b. Phylum BIII. Thermodesulfobacteria phy. nov. In: Boone, D. R., R. W. Castenholz & G. M. Garrity (eds) Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2nd ed. vol. 1. The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria pp. 389–393. Springer.

[GH01c] Garrity, G. M., & J. G. Holt. 2001c. Phylum BV. Chrysiogenetes phy. nov. In: Boone, D. R., R. W. Castenholz & G. M. Garrity (eds) Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2nd ed. vol. 1. The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria pp. 421–425. Springer.

[JC08] Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. 2008. 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: 1755–1763.

[MK03] Mori, K., H. Kim, T. Kakegawa & S. Hanada. 2003. A novel lineage of sulfate-reducing microorganisms: Thermodesulfobiaceae fam. nov., Thermodesulfobium narugense, gen. nov., sp. nov., a new thermophilic isolate from a hot spring. Extremophiles 7: 283–290.

[PK03] Parshina, S. N., R. Kleerebezem, J. L. Sanz, G. Lettinga, A. N. Nozhevnikova, N. A. Kostrikina, A. M. Lysenko & A. J. M. Stams. 2003. Soehningia saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Clostridium amygdalinum sp. nov., two novel anaerobic, benzaldehyde-converting bacteria. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1791–1799.

[PF99] Philippe, H., & P. Forterre. 1999. The rooting of the universal tree of life is not reliable. Journal of Molecular Evolution 49: 509–523.