Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34024

Name

Competibacteraceae McIlroy et al. 2014

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	Chromatiales Imhoff 2005

Members

genus	Competibacter Crocetti et al. 2002
genus	Contendobacter (sic) McIlroy et al. 2014

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
family Competibacteraceae McIlroy et al. 2014

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 Competibacteraceae McIlroy et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34024.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34024.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 18, 2019.

References

McIlroy SJ, Albertsen M, Andresen EK, Saunders AM, Kristiansen R, Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, Nielsen KL, Nielsen PH. 'Candidatus Competibacter'-lineage genomes retrieved from metagenomes reveal functional metabolic diversity. ISME J 2014; 8:613-624. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.162 [PubMed].