Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4413

Name

Propionispira Schink et al. 1983 emend. Ueki et al. 2014

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	Selenomonadaceae Campbell et al. 2015

Members

species	Propionispira arboris Schink et al. 1983
species	Propionispira arcuata Ueki et al. 2014
species	Propionispira paucivorans (Schleifer et al. 1990) Ueki et al. 2014
species	Propionispira raffinosivorans (Schleifer et al. 1990) Ueki et al. 2014

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 Selenomonadales Marchandin et al. 2010 emend. Campbell et al. 2015
family Selenomonadaceae Campbell et al. 2015
genus Propionispira Schink et al. 1983 emend. Ueki et al. 2014

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 Propionispira Schink et al. 1983 emend. Ueki et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4413.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4413.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 25, 2018.

References

Schink B, Thompson TE, Zeikus JG. Characterization of Propionospira arboris gen. nov. sp. nov., a nitrogen fixing anaerobe common to wetwoods of living trees. J Gen Microbiol 1982; 128:2771-2779.
Ueki A, Watanabe M, Ohtaki Y, Kaku N, Ueki K. Description of Propionispira arcuata sp. nov., isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste, reclassification of Zymophilus raffinosivorans and Zymophilus paucivorans as Propionispira raffinosivorans comb. nov. and Propionispira paucivorans comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Propionispira. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3571-3577. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.063875-0 [PubMed].
Campbell C, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Genome-based taxonomic framework for the class Negativicutes: division of the class Negativicutes into the orders Selenomonadales emend., Acidaminococcales ord. nov. and Veillonellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3203-3215. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000347 [PubMed].