Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.506

Name

Deinococcaceae Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Deinococcales Rainey et al. 1997

Members

genus	Deinococcus Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997
genus	Deinobacter Oyaizu et al. 1987
genus	Deinobacterium Ekman et al. 2011

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Deinococcus-Thermus (sic) Weisburg et al. 2021
class Deinococci Garrity and Holt 2002
order Deinococcales Rainey et al. 1997
family Deinococcaceae Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997

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 family Deinococcaceae Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.506.

Source File

10.1601/tx.506.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 6, 2019.

References

Ekman JV, Raulio M, Busse H-J, Fewer DP, Salkinoja-Salonen M. Deinobacterium chartae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely radiation-resistant, biofilm-forming bacterium isolated from a Finnish paper mill. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:540-548. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.017970-0 [PubMed].
Rainey FA, Nobre MF, Schumann P, Stackebrandt E, da Costa MS. Phylogenetic diversity of the deinococci as determined by 16S ribosomal DNA sequence comparison. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:510-514. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-510 [PubMed].