Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3688

Name

Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

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	Bdellovibrionaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Members

species	Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

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 Bdellovibrionia Waite et al. 2020
order Bdellovibrionales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Bdellovibrionaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
genus Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

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 Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3688.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3688.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 27, 2017.

References

Soo RM, Woodcroft BJ, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. Back from the dead; the curious tale of the predatory cyanobacterium Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus. PeerJ 2015; 3:e968. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.968 [PubMed].
Gromov BV, Mamkayeva KA. Proposal of a new genus Vampirovibrio for chlorellavorus bacteria previously assigned to Bdellovibrio. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1980; 49:165-167. [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.