Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.23882

Name

Magnetococcaceae Bazylinski et al. 2013

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Magnetococcales Bazylinski et al. 2013

Members

genus	Magnetococcus Bazylinski et al. 2013

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Magnetococcales Bazylinski et al. 2013
family Magnetococcaceae Bazylinski et al. 2013

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 family Magnetococcaceae Bazylinski et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.23882.

Source File

10.1601/tx.23882.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 27, 2017.

References

Bazylinski DA, Williams TJ, Lefèvre CT, Berg RJ, Zhang CL, Bowser SS, Dean AJ, Beveridge TJ. Magnetococcus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine, magnetotactic bacterium that represents a novel lineage (Magnetococcaceae fam. nov., Magnetococcales ord. nov.) at the base of the Alphaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:801-808. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.038927-0 [PubMed].