Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6130

Name

Leifsonia Evtushenko et al. 2000 emend. Dastager et al. 2009

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	Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995 emend. Zhi et al. 2009

Members

species	Leifsonia aquatica (ex Leifson 1962) Evtushenko et al. 2000
species	Leifsonia antarctica Pindi et al. 2009
species	Leifsonia aurea Reddy et al. 2003
species	Leifsonia bigeumensis Dastager et al. 2008
species	Leifsonia cynodontis (Davis et al. 1984) Suzuki et al. 2000
species	Leifsonia ginsengi Qiu et al. 2007
species	Leifsonia kafniensis Pindi et al. 2009 emend. Cai et al. 2018
species	Leifsonia kribbensis Dastager et al. 2009
species	Leifsonia lichenia An et al. 2010
species	Leifsonia naganoensis Suzuki et al. 2000
species	Leifsonia pindariensis Reddy et al. 2008
species	Leifsonia poae Evtushenko et al. 2000
species	Leifsonia psychrotolerans Ganzert et al. 2011 emend. Cai et al. 2018
species	Leifsonia rubra Reddy et al. 2003 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Leifsonia shinshuensis Suzuki et al. 2000
species	Leifsonia soli Madhaiyan et al. 2010
species	Leifsonia xyli (Davis et al. 1984) Evtushenko et al. 2000

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 Microbacteriales Salam et al. 2020
family Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Leifsonia Evtushenko et al. 2000 emend. Dastager et al. 2009

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 Leifsonia Evtushenko et al. 2000 emend. Dastager et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6130.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6130.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 16, 2011.

References

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