Nitrospirota
Phylum of bacteria
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The Nitrospirota are a phylum of bacteria. They include multiple genera such as Nitrospira, the largest.
Garrity & Holt 2021[1]
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Nitrospirota Garrity & Holt 2021[1] |
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History of knowledge
The first member of this phylum, Nitrospira marina, was discovered in 1985.[2] The second member, Nitrospira moscoviensis, was discovered in 1995.[3][4] Nitrospira inopinata was discovered in 2015[5][6] and cultivated in 2017.[7]
Metabolism
Nitrospirota contains nitrifying taxa which oxidize nitrite to nitrate (nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, NOB[8]) and commamox bacteria: Nitrospira inopinata.[5][6] Dissulfurispira thermophila (Thermodesulfovibrionia) grows by disproportionation of thiosulfate or elemental sulfur,[9] so far the only known member of Nitrospirota capable of microbial sulfur disproportionation (MSD).[10]
Phylogeny
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Taxonomy
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LSPN)[17] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[4]
- Genus ?"Candidatus Thermomagnetovibrio" Lefèvre et al. 2010
- Class Nitrospiria Garrity & Holt 2022
- Order Nitrospirales Garrity & Holt 2022
- Family UBA8639
- Genus "Candidatus Nitronereus" Mueller et al. 2023
- Family Nitrospiraceae Garrity & Holt 2022
- Genus ?"Candidatus Nitronatura" Singleton et al. 2025
- Genus ?"Candidatus Nitrosymbion" Glasl et al. 2024
- Genus ?"Candidatus Porinitrospira" Taylor et al. 2022
- Genus Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986
- Family UBA8639
- Order "Troglogloeales" Yu et al. 2022
- Genus ?"Candidatus Troglogloea" corrig. Kostanjsek et al. 2013
- Family "Manganitrophaceae" Yu et al. 2022
- Genus "Candidatus Manganitrophus" Yu & Leadbetter 2020
- Order Nitrospirales Garrity & Holt 2022
- Class Thermodesulfovibrionia Umezawa et al. 2021
- Order "Mariimomonadales" Yoon et al. 2023
- Family "Mariimomonadaceae" Yoon et al. 2023
- Genus ?"Candidatus Mariimomonas Yoon et al. 2023
- Family "Mariimomonadaceae" Yoon et al. 2023
- Order Thermodesulfovibrionales Umezawa et al. 2023
- Family "Sulfobiaceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 [UBA6898]
- Genus "Candidatus Sulfobium" Zecchin et al. 2018
- Family Thermodesulfovibrionaceae Umezawa et al. 2021
- Genus Thermodesulfovibrio Henry et al. 1994 emend. Sekiguchi et al. 2008
- Family Dissulfurispiraceae Umezawa et al. 2021
- Genus Dissulfurispira Umezawa et al. 2021
- Genus "Candidatus Nitrobium" Arshad et al. 2017
- Family "Magnetobacteriaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023
- Genus "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Spring et al. 1993
- Genus "Candidatus Magnetocorallium" Zhao et al. 2023
- Genus "Candidatus Magnetomicrobium" Zhang et al. 2021
- Genus "Candidatus Magnetominusculus" Lin et al. 2017
- Genus ?"Candidatus Magnetovum" corrig. Lefevre et al. 2011
- Family "Sulfobiaceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 [UBA6898]
- Order "Mariimomonadales" Yoon et al. 2023
