Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4198

Name

Filifactor Collins et al. 1994

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	Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010

Members

species	Filifactor villosus (Love et al. 1979) Collins et al. 1994
species	Filifactor alocis (Cato et al. 1985) Jalava and Eerola 1999

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010
genus Filifactor Collins et al. 1994

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 Filifactor Collins et al. 1994. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4198.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4198.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 14, 2009.

References

Jalava J, Eerola E. Phylogenetic analysis of Fusobacterium alocis and Fusobacterium sulci based on 16S rRNA gene sequences: proposal of Filifactor alocis (Cato, Moore and Moore) comb. nov. and Eubacterium sulci (Cato, Moore and Moore) comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1375-1379. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1375 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Lawson PA, Willems A, Cordoba JJ, Fernandez-Garayzabal J, Garcia P, Cai J, Hippe H, Farrow JAE. The phylogeny of the genus Clostridium: proposal of five new genera and eleven new species combinations. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:812-826. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-4-812 [PubMed].