Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.11463

Name

Metascardovia Okamoto et al. 2007

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Bifidobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009

Members

species	Metascardovia criceti Okamoto et al. 2007

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Bifidobacteriales Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
family Bifidobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Metascardovia Okamoto et al. 2007

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Metascardovia Okamoto et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.11463.

Source File

10.1601/tx.11463.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 23, 2017.

References

Okamoto M, Benno Y, Leung KP, Maeda N. Metascardovia criceti gen. nov., sp. nov., from hamster dental plaque. Microbiol Immunol 2007; 51:747-754. [PubMed].