Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.29302

Name

Chromobacterium alkanivorans Bajaj et al. 2016

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	Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 emend. De Ley et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

IITR-71^T (=JCM 30068 =MTCC 11059 =KCTC 52433)

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Neisseriales Tønjum 2006 emend. Chen et al. 2021
family Chromobacteriaceae Adeolu and Gupta 2013 emend. Chen et al. 2021
genus Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 emend. De Ley et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Chromobacterium alkanivorans Bajaj et al. 2016

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 Chromobacterium alkanivorans Bajaj et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.29302.

Source File

10.1601/tx.29302.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 22, 2016.

References

Bajaj A, Kumar A, Yadav S, Kaur G, Bala M, Singh NK, Kumar RM, Manickam N, Mayilraj S. Isolation and characterization of a novel Gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium alkanivorans sp. nov., strain IITR-71T degrading halogenated alkanes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5228-5235. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001500 [PubMed].