Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1544

Name

Dichotomicrobium Hirsch and Hoffmann 1989

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	Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Dichotomicrobium thermohalophilum Hirsch and Hoffmann 1989 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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 Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Dichotomicrobium Hirsch and Hoffmann 1989

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 Dichotomicrobium Hirsch and Hoffmann 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1544.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1544.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

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.
Hirsch P, Hoffmann B. Dichotomicrobium thermohalophilum, gen. nov., sp. nov., budding prosthecate bacteria from the Solar Lake, Sinai and some related strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 1989; 11:291-301.