Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4398

Name

Megasphaera Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Marchandin et al. 2003

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	Veillonellaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Campbell et al. 2015

Members

species	Megasphaera elsdenii (Gutierrez et al. 1959) Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Megasphaera butyrica Hitch et al. 2022
species	Megasphaera cerevisiae Engelmann and Weiss 1986
species	Megasphaera hexanoica Jeon et al. 2017
species	Megasphaera hominis Liu et al. 2022
species	Megasphaera hutchinsoni Srinivasan et al. 2021
species	Megasphaera indica Lanjekar et al. 2014
species	Megasphaera lornae Srinivasan et al. 2021
species	Megasphaera massiliensis Padmanabhan et al. 2016
species	Megasphaera micronuciformis Marchandin et al. 2003
species	Megasphaera paucivorans Juvonen and Suihko 2006
species	Megasphaera stantonii Maki and Looft 2018
species	Megasphaera sueciensis Juvonen and Suihko 2006
species	Megasphaera vaginalis Srinivasan et al. 2021
species	Megasphaera sp. None 2015

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 Negativicutes Marchandin et al. 2010
order Veillonellales Campbell et al. 2015
family Veillonellaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Campbell et al. 2015
genus Megasphaera Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Marchandin et al. 2003

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 Megasphaera Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Marchandin et al. 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4398.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4398.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 22, 2022.

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