Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.17957

Name

Vitreoscillaceae Pringsheim 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

genus	Vitreoscilla Pringsheim 1949 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Vitreoscillaceae Pringsheim 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 family Vitreoscillaceae Pringsheim 1949 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.17957.

Source File

10.1601/tx.17957.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 4, 2017.

References

Pringsheim EG. The relationship between bacteria and Myxophyceae. Bacteriol Rev 1949; 13:47-98. [PubMed].
Buchanan RE. Family II. Leucotrichaceae Buchanan, Fam. Nov. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Seventh Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 850-851.