Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1489

Name

Oligotropha Meyer et al. 1994

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	Oligotropha carboxidovorans (ex Meyer and Schlegel 1978) Meyer et al. 1994

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 Oligotropha Meyer et al. 1994

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 Oligotropha Meyer et al. 1994. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1489.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1489.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 4, 2009.

References

Meyer O, Stackebrandt E, Auling G. Reclassification of ubiquinone Q-10 containing carbooxidotrophic bacteria: transfer of [Pseudomonas] carboxdovorans OM5 to Oligotropha, gen. nov., as Oligotropha carboxidovorans, comb. nov., transfer of [Alcaligenes] carboxydus DSM 1086 to Carbophilus, gen. nov., as Carbophilus carboxidus, comb. nov., transfer of [Pseudomonas] compransoris DSM 1231 to Zavarzinia, gen. nov., as Zavarzinia compransoris, comb. nov., amended description of the new genera. Syst Appl Microbiol 1993; 16:390-395.
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].