Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.474
Name
 Davey et al. 1993
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Bhandari and Gupta 2014
Members
Davey et al. 1993
Davey et al. 1993
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  corrig. Reysenbach 2021
  Reysenbach 2002 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014 non Thermotogae Reysenbach 2021
  Bhandari and Gupta 2014
  Bhandari and Gupta 2014
  Davey et al. 1993

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 Geotoga Davey et al. 1993. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.474.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on May 13, 2009.

References

  1. Bhandari V, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures for the phylum (class) Thermotogae and a proposal for its division into three orders (Thermotogales, Kosmotogales ord. nov. and Petrotogales ord. nov.) containing four families (Thermotogaceae, Fervidobacteriaceae fam. nov., Kosmotogaceae fam. nov. and Petrotogaceae fam. nov.) and a new genus Pseudothermotoga gen. nov. with five new combinations. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:143-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-0062-7 [PubMed].
  2. Davey ME, Wood WA, Key R, Nakamura K, Stahl D. Isolation of three species of Geotoga and Petrotoga: two new genera, representing an new lineage in the bacterial line of descent distantly related to the Thermotogales. Syst Appl Microbiol 1993; 16:191-200.