Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.31700

Name

Neptunicoccus Zhang et al. 2018

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	Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Liang et al. 2021

Members

species	Neptunicoccus sediminis Zhang et al. 2018 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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 Rhodobacterales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Liang et al. 2021
genus Neptunicoccus Zhang et al. 2018

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 Neptunicoccus Zhang et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.31700.

Source File

10.1601/tx.31700.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 11, 2018.

References

Zhang Y-J, Liu X-F, Kuang B-Z, Zhang X-Y, Zhou M-Y, Chen S. Neptunicoccus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Rhodobacteraceae isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1702-1706. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002728 [PubMed].