Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5739

Name

Atopobium Collins and Wallbanks 1993 emend. Cools 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	Atopobiaceae Gupta et al. 2013 emend. Zgheib et al. 2021

Members

species	Atopobium minutum (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Collins and Wallbanks 1993 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Atopobium deltae Cools et al. 2014
species	Atopobium fossor (Bailey and Love 1986) Kageyama et al. 1999 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Atopobium parvulum (Weinberg et al. 1937) Collins and Wallbanks 1993
species	Atopobium rimae (Olsen et al. 1991) Collins and Wallbanks 1993
species	Atopobium vaginae Rodríguez Jovita et al. 1999
species	Atopobium 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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Coriobacteriia König 2013 emend. Gupta et al. 2013
subclass Coriobacteridae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
order Coriobacteriales Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Gupta et al. 2013
family Atopobiaceae Gupta et al. 2013 emend. Zgheib et al. 2021
genus Atopobium Collins and Wallbanks 1993 emend. Cools 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 Atopobium Collins and Wallbanks 1993 emend. Cools et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5739.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5739.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 2, 2021.

References

Rodríguez Jovita M, Collins MD, Sjödén B, Falsen E. Characterization of a novel Atopobium isolate from the human vagina: description of Atopobium vaginae sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1573-1576. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1573 [PubMed].
Gupta RS, Chen WJ, Adeolu M, Chai Y. Molecular signatures for the class Coriobacteriia and its different clades; proposal for division of the class Coriobacteriia into the emended order Coriobacteriales, containing the emended family Coriobacteriaceae and Atopobiaceae fam. nov., and Eggerthellales ord. nov., containing the family Eggerthellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3379-3397. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.048371-0 [PubMed].
Kageyama A, Benno Y, Nakase T. Phylogenic and phenotypic evidence for the transfer of Eubacterium fossor to the genus Atopobium as Atopobium fossor comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 1999; 43:389-395. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.1999.tb02421.x [PubMed].
Collins MD, Wallbanks S. Comparative sequence analyses of the 16S rRNA genes of Lactobacillus minutus, Lactobacillus rimae and Streptococcus parvulus: proposal for the creation of a new genus Atopobium. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1992; 95:235-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1992.tb05372.x [PubMed].
Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:479-491. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-479.
Cools P, Oyaert M, Vaneechoutte M, De Laere E, Vervaeke S. Atopobium deltae sp. nov., isolated from the blood of a patient with Fournier's gangrene. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3140-3145. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.065243-0 [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015