Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.23883

Name

Magnetococcus Bazylinski et al. 2013

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	Magnetococcaceae Bazylinski et al. 2013

Members

species	Magnetococcus marinus Bazylinski et al. 2013
species	Magnetococcus massalia (sic) Ji et al. 2017
species	Magnetococcus yuandaduensis corrig. Lin and Pan 2009

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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Magnetococcales Bazylinski et al. 2013
family Magnetococcaceae Bazylinski et al. 2013
genus Magnetococcus 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 genus Magnetococcus Bazylinski et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.23883.

Source File

10.1601/tx.23883.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 7, 2020.

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].
Lin W, Pan Y. Uncultivated Magnetotactic Cocci from Yuandadu Park in Beijing, China Wei Lin, Yongxin Pan. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009; 75:4046-4052. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00247-09.
Ji B, Zhang S-D, Zhang W-J, Rouy Z, Alberto F, Santini C-L, Mangenot S, Gagnot S, Philippe N, Pradel N, Zhang L, Tempel S, Li Y, Médigue C, Henrissat B, Coutinho PM, Barbe V, Talla E, Wu L-F. The chimeric nature of the genomes of marine magnetotactic coccoid-ovoid bacteria defines a novel group of Proteobacteria. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:1103-1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13637 [PubMed].