Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1846

Name

Leptothrix discophora (ex Schwers 1912) Spring et al. 1997

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Leptothrix Kützing 1843 emend. Mulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

SS-1^T (=LMG 8141)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Incertae sedis 5 Garrity et al. 2007
genus Leptothrix Kützing 1843 emend. Mulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Leptothrix discophora (ex Schwers 1912) Spring et al. 1997

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 species Leptothrix discophora (ex Schwers 1912) Spring et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1846.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1846.xml

References

Spring S, Kampfer P, Ludwig W, Schleifer KH. Polyphasic characterization of the genus Leptothrix: new descriptions of Leptothrix mobilis sp. nov., and Leptothrix discophora sp. nov. nom. rev. and emended description of Leptothrix cholodnii emend. Syst Appl Microbiol 1996; 19:634-643. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(96)80036-1.