Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.4533
Name
 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 RecordName Record
Lv et al. 2020
Members
(Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994
Slobodkin et al. 1997
Nepomnyashchaya et al. 2012
Balk et al. 2005
Balk et al. 2008
Alves et al. 2013
(Wiegel et al. 1982) Collins et al. 1994
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
  Lv et al. 2020
  Lv et al. 2020
  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 Moorella Collins et al. 1994. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4533.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on May 27, 2020.

References

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