Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5758

Name

Slackia Wade et al. 1999 emend. Nagai et al. 2010

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	Eggerthellaceae Gupta et al. 2013 emend. Gupta 2021

Members

species	Slackia exigua (Poco et al. 1996) Wade et al. 1999 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Slackia equolifaciens Jin et al. 2010
species	Slackia faecicanis Lawson et al. 2005
species	Slackia heliotrinireducens (Lanigan 1983) Wade et al. 1999 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Slackia isoflavoniconvertens Matthies et al. 2009
species	Slackia piriformis Nagai et al. 2010

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
order Eggerthellales Gupta et al. 2013
family Eggerthellaceae Gupta et al. 2013 emend. Gupta 2021
genus Slackia Wade et al. 1999 emend. Nagai et al. 2010

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 Slackia Wade et al. 1999 emend. Nagai et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5758.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5758.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 17, 2010.

References

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