Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2266

Name

Xylella Wells et al. 1987

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	Lysobacteraceae Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Naushad et al. 2015

Members

species	Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. 1987
species	Xylella taiwanensis Su et al. 2016

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Lysobacterales Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Naushad et al. 2015
family Lysobacteraceae Christensen and Cook 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Naushad et al. 2015
genus Xylella Wells et al. 1987

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 Xylella Wells et al. 1987. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2266.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2266.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 21, 2016.

References

Wells JM, Raju BC, Hung HY, Weisburg WG, Mandelco-Paul L, Brenner DJ. Xylella fastidiosa gen. nov., sp. nov.: Gram-negative, xylem-limited fastidious plant bacteria related to Xanthomonas spp. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1987; 37:136-143. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-37-2-136.
Su C-C, Deng W-L, Jan F-J, Chang C-J, Huang H, Shih H-T, Chen J. Xylella taiwanensis sp. nov. cause of pear leaf scorch disease in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4766-4771. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001426 [PubMed].
Saddler GS, Bradbury JF. Order III. Xanthomonadales ord. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 63.
Naushad S, Adeolu M, Wong S, Sohail M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and molecular marker based taxonomic framework for the order Xanthomonadales: proposal to transfer the families Algiphilaceae and Solimonadaceae to the order Nevskiales ord. nov. and to create a new family within the order Xanthomonadales, the family Rhodanobacteraceae fam. nov., containing the genus Rhodanobacter and its closest relatives. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:467-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-014-0344-8 [PubMed].