Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5755

Name

Olsenella Dewhirst et al. 2001 emend. Kraatz et al. 2011

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	Olsenella uli (Olsen et al. 1991) Dewhirst et al. 2001 emend. Li et al. 2015
species	Olsenella faecalis Han et al. 2019
species	Olsenella gallinarum Zenner et al. 2021
species	Olsenella massiliensis Zgheib et al. 2021
species	Olsenella phocaeensis Zgheib et al. 2021
species	Olsenella porci Wylensek et al. 2021
species	Olsenella profusa Dewhirst et al. 2001 emend. Kraatz et al. 2011
species	Olsenella scatoligenes Li et al. 2015
species	Olsenella umbonata Kraatz et al. 2011 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Olsenella urininfantis Zgheib et al. 2021
species	Olsenella 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 Olsenella Dewhirst et al. 2001 emend. Kraatz et al. 2011

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 Olsenella Dewhirst et al. 2001 emend. Kraatz et al. 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5755.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5755.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 25, 2021.

References

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