Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1534

Name

Aquabacter Irgens et al. 1993

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	Xanthobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Aquabacter spiritensis Irgens et al. 1993
species	Aquabacter cavernae Duo et al. 2019

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 Xanthobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Aquabacter Irgens et al. 1993

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 Aquabacter Irgens et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1534.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1534.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 4, 2019.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VIII. Hyphomicrobiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 476.
Duo J-L, Cha Q-Y, Zhou X-K, Zhang T-K, Qin S-C, Yang P-X, Zhu M-L, Mo MH, Duan Y-Q. Aquabacter cavernae sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from cave soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3716-3722. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003585 [PubMed].
Irgens RL, Kersters K, Segers P, Gillis M, Staley JT. Aquabacter spiritensis, gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, gasvacuolate aquatic bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1991; 155:137-142.
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].