Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1250

Name

Caulobacter Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Abraham et al. 1999

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	Caulobacteraceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Caulobacter vibrioides Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Caulobacter bacteroides Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Caulobacter crescentus Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Caulobacter daechungensis Jin et al. 2013
species	Caulobacter flavus Sun et al. 2015
species	Caulobacter fusiformis Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Caulobacter ginsengisoli Liu et al. 2011
species	Caulobacter halobacteroides Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Caulobacter henricii Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Caulobacter hibisci Moya et al. 2017
species	Caulobacter intermedius Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Caulobacter leidyi corrig. Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Caulobacter maris Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Caulobacter mirabilis Abraham et al. 2008 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Caulobacter profundus corrig. Jin et al. 2014
species	Caulobacter rhizosphaerae Sun et al. 2017
species	Caulobacter segnis (Urakami et al. 1990) Abraham et al. 1999
species	Caulobacter soli Yang et al. 2020
species	Caulobacter subvibrioides Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Caulobacter variabilis (ex Poindexter 1964) Poindexter 1989
species	Caulobacter sp. None 2015

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Caulobacterales Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Caulobacteraceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Caulobacter Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Abraham et al. 1999

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 Caulobacter Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Abraham et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1250.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1250.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 29, 2020.

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