Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3683

Name

Bacteriovorax Baer et al. 2000

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	Bacteriovoracaceae Davidov and Jurkevitch 2004 emend. Koval et al. 2015

Members

species	Bacteriovorax stolpii (Seidler et al. 1972) Baer et al. 2000
species	Bacteriovorax litoralis Baer et al. 2004
species	Bacteriovorax marinus Baer et al. 2004
species	Bacteriovorax starrii (Seidler et al. 1972) Baer et al. 2000

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 Bdellovibrionota Waite et al. 2021
class Bacteriovoracia Waite et al. 2020
order Bacteriovoracales Hahn et al. 2017 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Bacteriovoracaceae Davidov and Jurkevitch 2004 emend. Koval et al. 2015
genus Bacteriovorax Baer et al. 2000

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 Bacteriovorax Baer et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3683.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3683.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 14, 2017.

References

Baer ML, Ravel J, Piñeiro SA, Guether-Borg D, Williams HN. Reclassification of salt-water Bdellovibrio sp. as Bacteriovorax marinus sp. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1011-1016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02458-0 [PubMed].
Koval SF, Williams HN, Stine OC. Reclassification of Bacteriovorax marinus as Halobacteriovorax marinus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov.; description of Halobacteriovoraceae fam. nov. in the class Deltaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:593-597. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.070201-0 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Bdellovibrionaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1040-1041.
Baer ML, Ravel J, Chun J, Hill RT, Williams HN. A proposal for the reclassification of Bdellovibrio stolpii and Bdellovibrio starrii into a new genus, Bacteriovorax gen. nov. as Bacteriovorax stolpii comb. nov. and Bacteriovorax starrii comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:219-224. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-1-219 [PubMed].