Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2283

Name

Thiothrix flexilis Aruga et al. 2002

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	Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Boden and Scott 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

EJ2M-B^T (=JCM 11135 =DSM 14609)

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005
family Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Boden and Scott 2018
species Thiothrix flexilis Aruga et al. 2002

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 Thiothrix flexilis Aruga et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2283.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2283.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 12, 2018.

References

Aruga S, Kamagata Y, Kohno T, Hanada S, Nakamura K, Kanagawa T. Characterization of filamentous Eikelboom type 021N bacteria and description of Thiothrix disciformis sp. nov. and Thiothrix flexilis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1309-1316. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02177-0 [PubMed].