Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.4088
Name
 Duncan et al. 2002 emend. Zou et al. 2021
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Peshkoff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
Members
(Hauduroy et al. 1937) Duncan et al. 2002 emend. Zou et al. 2021
Zou et al. 2021
Sakamoto et al. 2022
Sakamoto et al. 2022
Sakamoto et al. 2022
Liu et al. 2021
Zou et al. 2021
Fitzgerald et al. 2018
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
  Rainey 2010
  Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
  Peshkoff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
  Duncan et al. 2002 emend. Zou et al. 2021

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 Faecalibacterium Duncan et al. 2002 emend. Zou et al. 2021. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4088.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on April 29, 2022.

References

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