desulfitobacterium desulfitobacterium desulfitobacterium is a genus of gram-positive, strictly anaerobic, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacteria from the family of peptococcaceae. desulfitobacterium species have low gc-contents. desulfitobacterium scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: clostridia order: clostridiales family: desulfitobacteriaceae genus: desulfitobacteriumutkin, woese & wiegel 1994 type species desulfitobacterium dehalogenansutkin, woese & wiegel 1994 species d. chlororespirans d. dehalogenans "d. dichloroeliminans" d. hafniense d. metallireducens phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn) and national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) 16s rrna based ltp_01_2022 120 marker proteins based gtdb 07-rs207 d. metallireducens d. dehalogenans d. chlororespirans d. hafniense d. metallireducens finneran et al. 2002 "d. dichloroeliminans" de wildeman et al. 2003 d. dehalogenans utkin, woese & wiegel 1994 d. chlororespirans sanford et al. 2001 d. hafniense christiansen & ahring 1996