Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1181

Name

Sphingomonas herbicidovorans Zipper et al. 1997

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Sphingomonas Yabuuchi et al. 1990 emend. Feng et al. 2017

Type Strain

representative organism

MH^T (=DSM 11019 =NBRC 16415 =ATCC 700291 =LMG 18315 =CIP 106705 =IFO 16415)

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Sphingomonadales Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Sphingomonas Yabuuchi et al. 1990 emend. Feng et al. 2017
species Sphingomonas herbicidovorans Zipper et al. 1997

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 species Sphingomonas herbicidovorans Zipper et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1181.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1181.xml

References

Zipper C, Nickel K, Angst W, Kohler HP. Complete microbial degradation of both enantiomers of the chiral herbicide mecoprop [(RS)-2-(4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)propionic acid] in an enantioselective manner by Sphingomonas herbicidovorans sp. nov. Appl Environ Microbiol 1996; 62:4318-4322. [PubMed].