Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1598

Name

Protomonas Urakami and Komagata 1984

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	Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Protomonas extorquens (ex Bassalik 1913) Urakami and Komagata 1984

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 Methylobacteriaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Protomonas Urakami and Komagata 1984

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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Protomonas Urakami and Komagata 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1598.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1598.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

Urakami T, Komagata K. Protomonas, a new genus of facultatively methylotrophic bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:188-201. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-2-188.
Bousfield IJ, Green PN. Reclassification of bacteria of the genus Protomonas Urakami and Komagata 1984 in the genus Methylobacterium (Patt, Cole, and Hanson) emend. Green and Bousfield 1983. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1985; 35:209-209. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-35-2-209.