Desulfobacula
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| Desulfobacula | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Thermodesulfobacteriota |
| Class: | Desulfobacteria |
| Order: | Desulfobacterales |
| Family: | Desulfobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Desulfobacula Rabus et al. 2000[1][2] |
| Type species | |
| Desulfobacula toluolica Rabus et al. 2000 | |
| Species | |
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Desulfobacula is a bacterial genus in the family Desulfobacteraceae.
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.)[3][4]
- 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.)[1]
