Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1472

Name

Blastobacter Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sly 1985

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	Nitrobacteraceae Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Blastobacter henricii Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Blastobacter aggregatus Hirsch and Müller 1986
species	Blastobacter capsulatus Hirsch and Müller 1986
species	Blastobacter denitrificans Hirsch and Müller 1986
species	Blastobacter natatorius Sly 1985

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 Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Nitrobacteraceae Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Blastobacter Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sly 1985

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 Blastobacter Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sly 1985. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1472.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1472.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 1, 2018.

References

Zavarzin GA. Budding bacteria. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1961; 30:952-975.
Hirsch P, Müller M. Blastobacter aggregatus sp. nov., Blastobacter capsulatus sp. nov., and Blastobacter denitrificans sp. nov., new budding bacteria from freshwater habitats. Syst Appl Microbiol 1985; 6:281-286.
Sly LI. Emendation of the genus Blastobacter Zavarzin 1961 and description of Blastobacter natatorius sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1985; 35:40-45. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-35-1-40.
Lee KB, Liu CT, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H. The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1907-1919. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63663-0 [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].