Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5824

Name

Varibaculum Hall et al. 2003 emend. Glaeser et al. 2016

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	Actinomycetaceae Buchanan 1918 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Members

species	Varibaculum cambriense corrig. Hall et al. 2003 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Varibaculum anthropi Glaeser et al. 2017
species	Varibaculum massiliense Niang et al. 2021
species	Varibaculum timonense Lo et al. 2021
species	Varibaculum vaginae Fall et al. 2021

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 Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Salam et al. 2020
suborder Actinomycineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
family Actinomycetaceae Buchanan 1918 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Varibaculum Hall et al. 2003 emend. Glaeser et al. 2016

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 Varibaculum Hall et al. 2003 emend. Glaeser et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5824.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5824.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2021.

References

Glaeser SP, Doijad S, Hijazin M, Chakraborty T, Falsen E, Hall V, Kämpfer P. Varibaculum anthropi sp. nov. represented by three genetically different genomovars isolated from clinical material and emended description of the genus Varibaculum. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:546-552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2016.09.002 [PubMed].
Niang EHA, Lo CI, Brahimi S, Armstrong N, Raoult D, Fournier P-E, Fenollar F. Varibaculum massiliense sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from human urine with culturomics. New Microbes New Infect 2019; 32:100591-100591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100591 [PubMed].
Fall NS, Lo CI, Fournier P-E, Sokhna C, Raoult D, Fenollar F, Lagier J-C. Arcanobacterium ihumii sp. nov., Varibaculum vaginae sp. nov. and Tessaracoccus timonensis sp. nov., isolated from vaginal swabs from healthy Senegalese women. New Microbes New Infect 2019; 31:100585-100585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100585 [PubMed].
Lo CI, Niang EHA, Guilhot E, Raoult D, Fournier P-E, Fenollar F. Varibaculum timonense sp. nov., a new bacterial species isolated from human stool sample. New Microbes New Infect 2019; 31:100575-100575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100575 [PubMed].
Hall V, Collins MD, Lawson PA, Hutson RA, Falsen E, Inganäs E, Duerden B. Characterization of some Actinomyces-like isolates from human clinical sources: description of Varibaculum cambriensis gen nov, sp nov. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41:640-644. [PubMed].
Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65780-0 [PubMed].