The name Deferribacter derives from: Latin pref. de-, from; Latin noun ferrum, iron; Neo-Latinmasculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latinmasculine gender noun Deferribacter, rod that reduces iron.
Species
The genus contains 4 species, namely
D. abyssi Miroshnichenko et al. 2003; (Latingenitive case noun abyssi, of immense depths, living in the depths of the ocean.)
1234Deferribacter in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (2026). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 54 (D1): D884–D891. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.