Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.5921
Name
 Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009
Members
(Wolff 1910) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Levine and Soppeland 1926) Breed 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
Komagata and Iizuka 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
Tang et al. 2008
(Cooke and Keith 1927) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
Kim et al. 2013
Jung et al. 2019
Gavrish et al. 2005
Pei et al. 2022
Gavrish et al. 2005
Pascual and Collins 1999
Collins et al. 1983
Ivanova et al. 2004
Komagata and Iizuka 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
Cui et al. 2013
Su and Yamada 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)
Collins et al. 1983 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Chatelain and Second 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
Delaporte and Sasson 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)
Delaporte and Sasson 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)
Choi et al. 2018
(Steinhaus 1941) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Steinhaus 1941) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
(ex Davis 1939) Collins et al. 1981
Choi et al. 2013
Pei et al. 2022
Okabayashi and Masuo 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)
(sic) Wauters et al. 2003
Komagata and Iizuka 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
Takayama et al. 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)
Lee 2008
Roux and Raoult 2009 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
McBride et al. 1994 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Román-Ponce et al. 2015
Bhadra et al. 2008
Pascual et al. 1996
Chatelain and Second 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)
Wauters et al. 2001
Gavrish et al. 2005
Heyrman et al. 2004
Pei et al. 2021
Kati et al. 2010
Pei et al. 2020
Lysenko 1959 (Approved Lists 1980)
Iizuka and Komagata 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)
Mages et al. 2009 emend. Bernard et al. 2016
Deng et al. 2020
Guan et al. 2010
Lee 2006
Kämpfer et al. 2010 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Wauters et al. 2004
Lysenko 1959 (Approved Lists 1980)
Chen et al. 2016
Kokcha et al. 2013
Kumar et al. 2013
(ZoBell and Upham 1944) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
Komagata and Iizuka 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Bechdel et al. 1928) Breed 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
Tonouchi et al. 2013
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
  Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
  Salam et al. 2020
  Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009
  Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Brevibacterium Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5921.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 9, 2021.

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