Nitrospira
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Translingual
Etymology
From nitro- + Latin spīra (“coil”).
Proper noun
Nitrospira
- Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria:
- A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Negibacteria – now Nitrospirota.
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Nitrospirota – tentative name.
- (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