Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4352

Name

Pelotomaculum Imachi et al. 2002 emend. Qiu et al. 2006

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	Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020 non Desulfotomaculaceae Watanabe et al. 2020

Members

species	Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum Imachi et al. 2002
species	Pelotomaculum isophthalicicum corrig. Qiu et al. 2006
species	Pelotomaculum propionicicum Imachi et al. 2007
species	Pelotomaculum schinkii de Bok et al. 2005
species	Pelotomaculum terephthalicicum corrig. Qiu et al. 2006

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 Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020 non Desulfotomaculaceae Watanabe et al. 2020
genus Pelotomaculum Imachi et al. 2002 emend. Qiu et al. 2006

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 Pelotomaculum Imachi et al. 2002 emend. Qiu et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4352.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4352.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 4, 2021.

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