Hippea

Hippea is an obligate anaerobic and moderately thermophilic bacteria genus from the family of Desulfobacteraceae.[1][2][3][4] Hippea is named after the German microbiologist Hans Hippe.[4]

Hippea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Deltaproteobacteria
Order:	Desulfobacterales
Family:	Desulfurellaceae
Genus:	Hippea Miroshnichenko et al. 1999[1]
Type species
Hippea maritima[1]
Species
H. alviniae[1] H. jasoniae[1] H. maritima[1]

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Hippea". LPSN.
2. "Hippea". www.uniprot.org.
3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M. "Nomenclature Abstract for Hippea". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.3464.
4. Garrity, George M. (2001). Bergey's Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780387241456.

Further reading

• Flores, GE; Hunter, RC; Liu, Y; Mets, A; Schouten, S; Reysenbach, AL (June 2012). "Hippea jasoniae sp. nov. and Hippea alviniae sp. nov., thermoacidophilic members of the class Deltaproteobacteria isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent deposits". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62 (Pt 6): 1252–8. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.033001-0. PMID 21764980.
• Miroshnichenko, ML; Rainey, FA; Rhode, M; Bonch-Osmolovskaya, EA (July 1999). "Hippea maritima gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of thermophilic, sulfur-reducing bacterium from submarine hot vents". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 49 Pt 3: 1033–8. doi:10.1099/00207713-49-3-1033. PMID 10425760.