Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2042

Name

Propionibacter Meijer et al. 1999

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	Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017

Members

species	Propionibacter pelophilus Meijer et al. 1999

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 Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
genus Propionibacter Meijer et al. 1999

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 Propionibacter Meijer et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2042.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2042.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 27, 2009.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG. Family I. Rhodocyclaceae 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. 887.
Meijer WG, Nienhuis-Kuiper ME, Hansen TA. Fermentative bacteria from estuarine mud: phylogenetic position of Acidaminobacter hydrogenoformans and description of a new type of gram-negative, propionigenic bacterium as Propionibacter pelophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1039-1044. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-3-1039 [PubMed].