Sulfitobacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Sulfitobacter | authority = Sorokin 1996<ref>{{cite journal | author = Sorokin DY. | date = 1995 | title = ''Sulfitobacter pontiacus'' gen. nov., sp. nov.—a new heterotrophic bacterium from the Black Sea, specialized on sulfite oxidation | journal = Mikrobiologiya | volume = 64 | pages = 354–365 }}</ref> emend. Yoon ''et al''. 2007<ref name="Yoon">{{cite journal |vauthors=Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee MH, Oh TK | date = 2007 | title = Description of ''Sulfitobacter donghicola'' sp. nov., isolated from seawater of the East Sea in Korea, transfer of ''Staleya guttiformis'' Labrenz ''et al''. 2000 to the genus ''Sulfitobacter'' as ''Sulfitobacter guttiformis'' comb. nov. and emended description of the genus ''Sulfitobacter'' | journal = Int J Syst Evol Microbiol | volume = 57 | issue = 8 | pages = 1788–1792 | doi = 10.1099/ijs.0.65071-0 | pmid=17684258| doi-access = free }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = * ''Oceanibulbus'' Wagner-Döbler ''et al''. 2004 * ''Staleya'' Labrenz ''et al''. 2000 | synonyms_ref = <ref name="Yoon"/> }}

'''''Sulfitobacter''''' is a genus of bacteria in the family the Rhodobacteraceae.<ref>See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=60136 webpage on ''Sulfitobacter'']. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |access-date=2007-03-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Garrity GM, Holt JG | date = 2001 | chapter = Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria | title = Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria | edition = 2nd | editor1 = DR Boone | editor2 = RW Castenholz | pages = [https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/155 155–166] | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-387-98771-2 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/155 }}</ref>

==Species== ''Sulfitobacter'' comprises the following species:<ref name=LPSN>[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/sulfitobacter ''Sulfitobacter'' at LPSN]</ref> * ''Sulfitobacter aestuarii'' Park ''et al''. 2018 * "''Sulfitobacter algicola''" Wang ''et al''. 2021 * ''Sulfitobacter brevis'' Labrenz ''et al''. 2000 * ''Sulfitobacter delicatus'' Ivanova ''et al''. 2004 * ''Sulfitobacter donghicola'' Yoon ''et al''. 2007 * ''Sulfitobacter dubius'' Ivanova ''et al''. 2004 * ''Sulfitobacter faviae'' Kumari ''et al''. 2016 * ''Sulfitobacter geojensis'' Kwak ''et al''. 2014 * ''Sulfitobacter guttiformis'' (Labrenz ''et al''. 2000) Yoon ''et al''. 2007 * ''Sulfitobacter indolifex'' (Wagner-Döbler ''et al''. 2004) Liu ''et al''. 2017 * ''Sulfitobacter litoralis'' Park ''et al''. 2007 * ''Sulfitobacter marinus'' Yoon ''et al''. 2007 * ''Sulfitobacter maritimus'' Lian ''et al''. 2021 * ''Sulfitobacter mediterraneus'' Pukall ''et al''. 1999 * ''Sulfitobacter noctilucae'' Kwak ''et al''. 2014 * ''Sulfitobacter noctilucicola'' Kwak ''et al''. 2014 * ''Sulfitobacter pacificus'' Fukui ''et al''. 2015 * ''Sulfitobacter pontiacus'' Sorokin 1996 * ''Sulfitobacter porphyrae'' Fukui ''et al''. 2014 * ''Sulfitobacter profundi'' Song ''et al''. 2020 * ''Sulfitobacter pseudonitzschiae'' Hong ''et al''. 2015 * ''Sulfitobacter sabulilitoris'' Park ''et al''. 2019 * ''Sulfitobacter salinus'' Yoon 2020 * "''Sulfitobacter sediminilitoris''" Park ''et al''. 2020 * ''Sulfitobacter undariae'' Park ''et al''. 2015

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Category:Bacteria genera Category:Rhodobacteraceae