Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.36641

Name

Elkelangia Hördt et al. 2020

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	Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Elkelangia baekryungensis (Yoon et al. 2005) 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 Sphingomonadales Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Elkelangia Hördt et al. 2020

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 Elkelangia Hördt et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.36641.

Source File

10.1601/tx.36641.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 27, 2020.

References

Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].