Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2713

Name

Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Azotobacter chroococcum Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Jin et al. 2020
species	Azotobacter armeniacus Thompson and Skerman 1981
species	Azotobacter beijerinckii Lipman 1904 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Azotobacter bryophylli Liu et al. 2019
species	Azotobacter macrocytogenes Jensen 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Azotobacter nigricans Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Azotobacter paspali Döbereiner 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Azotobacter salinestris Page and Shivprasad 1991
species	Azotobacter vinelandii Lipman 1903 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Liao et al. 2020
family Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2713.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2713.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 13, 2019.

References

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Page WJ, Shivprasad S. Azotobacter salinestris sp. nov., a sodium-dependent, microaerophilic, and aeroadaptive nitrogen-fixing bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:369-376. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-3-369.
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Döbereiner J. Azotobacter paspali, sp. nov., una bacteria fixadora de nitragenio na rizosferade Paspalum. Pesq Agropec Bras 1966; 1:357-365.
Jensen HL. Azotobacter macrocytogenes n. sp., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium resistant to acid reaction. Acta Agric Scand 1955; 5:280-294.
Krasil'nikov NA. English. Guide to the Bacteria and Actinomycetes, Ac. Sci. USSR Publ., Moscow, 1949, p. 1-830.
Young JM, Park DC. Probable synonymy of the nitrogen-fixing genus Azotobacter and the genus Pseudomonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2894-2901. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64969-0 [PubMed].
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Thompson JP, Skerman VBD. In: Thompson JP, Skerman VBD (eds), Azotobacteraceae: The Taxonomy and Ecology of the Aerobic Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria, Academic Press, London, 1979, p. 1-405.