Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1193

Name

Sphingomonas stygia Balkwill 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

SMCC B0712^T (=DSM 12445 =CIP 105154 =IFO 16085 =ATCC 700280 =NBRC 16085)

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 stygia Balkwill 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 stygia Balkwill et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1193.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1193.xml

References

Balkwill DL, Drake GR, Reeves RH, Fredrickson JK, White DC, Ringelberg DB, Chandler DP, Romine MF, Kennedy DW, Spadoni CM. Taxonomic study of aromatic-degrading bacteria from deep-terrestrial-subsurface sediments and description of Sphingomonas aromaticivorans sp. nov., Sphingomonas subterranea sp. nov., and Sphingomonas stygia sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:191-201. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-1-191 [PubMed].