desulfobacula desulfobacula desulfobacula is a bacterial genus in the family desulfobacteraceae. desulfobacula scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: thermodesulfobacteriota class: desulfobacteria order: desulfobacterales family: desulfobacteraceae genus: desulfobacularabus et al. 2000 type species d. toluolica species the genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely: d. phenolica ( (bak and widdel 1988) kuever et al. 2001, ; neo-latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; latin feminine gender suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; neo-latin feminine gender adjective phenolica, pertaining to phenol.) d. toluolica ( rabus et al. 2000, (type species of the genus).; neo-latin noun toluol (from fr. or sp. tolu, balsam from santiago de tolu), toluol, toluene; latin feminine gender suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; neo-latin feminine gender adjective toluolica, pertaining to toluene.)