Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2021

Name

Azoarcus Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993 emend. Fu et al. 2019

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	Zoogloeaceae Boden et al. 2017

Members

species	Azoarcus indigens Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993
species	Azoarcus anaerobius Springer et al. 1998
species	Azoarcus buckelii Mechichi et al. 2002
species	Azoarcus communis Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993
species	Azoarcus evansii Anders et al. 1995
species	Azoarcus halotolerans Li et al. 2020
species	Azoarcus nasutitermitis Lin et al. 2020
species	Azoarcus olearius Chen et al. 2013
species	Azoarcus pumilus Fu et al. 2019
species	Azoarcus rhizosphaerae Lin et al. 2020
species	Azoarcus toluclasticus Song et al. 1999
species	Azoarcus tolulyticus Zhou et al. 1995
species	Azoarcus toluvorans Song et al. 1999
species	Azoarcus sp. None 2015

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Rhodocyclales Garrity et al. 2006
family Zoogloeaceae Boden et al. 2017
genus Azoarcus Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993 emend. Fu et al. 2019

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 Azoarcus Reinhold-Hurek et al. 1993 emend. Fu et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2021.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2021.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 30, 2020.

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