Desulfotomaculum nigrificans (DSM 7436, NCIMB 8354, Aberdeen)

Name: Desulfotomaculum nigrificans (DSM 7436, NCIMB 8354, Aberdeen)
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BacDive ID 11796

Type strain

Strain Designation Aberdeen

Culture col. no. DSM 7436 NCIMB 8354 Aberdeen

NCBI tax ID(s) 1565

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- NCIMB <- K. R. Butlin; Aberdeen {1948}

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Desulfotomaculum nigrificans Aberdeen is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from soil.

anaerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 48433

DSM 7436,NCIMB 8354

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:20:39

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Peptococcaceae

Genus Desulfotomaculum

Species Desulfotomaculum nigrificans

Full scientific name Desulfotomaculum nigrificans (Werkman and Weaver 1927) Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

"Clostridium nigrificans"
Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Desulfotomaculum nigrificans** (8)	Type strain
11792	D. nigrificans DSM 574, ATCC 19858, ATCC 19998, CIP 111238, ... (type strain)
11793	D. nigrificans DSM 575, NCIMB 8706
11794	D. nigrificans Teddington Garden, DSM 7434, NCIMB 8351
11795	D. nigrificans Staines G, DSM 7435, NCIMB 8353
11797	D. nigrificans Holland DT, DSM 7437, NCIMB 8355
11798	D. nigrificans DSM 7438, NCIMB 8788
11799	D. nigrificans 2133, DSM 7453, ATCC 7946, NCA 3750
11828	D. nigrificans CO-1-SRB, DSM 14880, VKM B-2319

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
3144	DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: DESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 63) Composition: MgSO4 x 7 H2O 2.0 g/l Na-DL-lactate 2.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2SO4 1.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.1 g/l Ascorbic acid 0.1 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
3144	positive	growth	55

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

3144

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
3144	soil	Scotland, Aberdeen	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
3144	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#3144	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 7436
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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