Nitrospira

Translingual

Etymology

From nitro- + Latin spīra (“coil”).

Proper noun

Nitrospira

1. 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