Nitrospira

Translingual

Etymology

From nitro- + Latin spīra (“coil”).

Proper noun

Nitrospira

Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria:
1. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Negibacteria – now Nitrospirota.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Nitrospirota – tentative name.
3. (Nitrospira f) A taxonomic genus within the family Nitrospiraceae.

Synonyms

(phylum): Nitrospirota

Hypernyms

(genus): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Nitrospira - phylum; Nitrospira - sole class (tentatively named); Nitrospirales - sole order (tentatively named); Nitrospiraceae - sole family

Hyponyms

(phylum): Nitrospira - class (tentatively named); Nitrospirales - order (tentatively named); Nitrospiraceae - family
(genus): Nitrospira moscoviensis; Nitrospira marina - species

References

genus

Nitrospira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Nitrospira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Nitrospira on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

phylum, class

Nitrospirae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Nitrospirae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Nitrospira at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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