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Desulfobacula

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Kingdom
  
Bacteria

Family
  
Desulfobacteraceae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Deltaproteobacteria

Phylum
  
Proteobacteria

Order
  
Desulfobacterales

Similar
  
Desulfobacteraceae, Desulfomonile, Desulfotomaculum

Desulfobacula is a bacterial genus in the family Desulfobacteraceae.

Species

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely:

  • D. phenolica ( (Bak and Widdel 1988) Kuever et al. 2001, ; New Latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; Latin feminine gender suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; New Latin feminine gender adjective phenolica, pertaining to phenol.)
  • D. toluolica ( Rabus et al. 2000, (Type species of the genus).; New 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; New Latin feminine gender adjective toluolica, pertaining to toluene.)

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