Deferribacter is a genus in the phylum Deferribacterota (Bacteria).

[2] The name Deferribacter derives from:Latin pref.

de-, from; Latin noun ferrum, iron; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Deferribacter, rod that reduces iron.

[3] The genus contains 4 species, namely[3] The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[7] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[8] D. abyssi Miroshnichenko et al. 2003 D. autotrophicus Slobodkina et al. 2009 D. desulfuricans Takai et al. 2003 D. thermophilus Greene et al. 1997 D. autotrophicus D. desulfuricans

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