Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.6139
Name
 Takeuchi et al. 1996 emend. Hyun et al. 2021
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Park et al. 1995 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
Members
Takeuchi et al. 1996
Martin et al. 2010
Lin et al. 2004
Morais et al. 2006
Morais et al. 2005
Shin et al. 2011 emend. Clark and Hodgkin 2015
Halpern et al. 2009 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Morais et al. 2005 emend. Muir and Tan 2007
Sturm et al. 2011 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Xu et al. 2021
Hyun et al. 2022
Li et al. 2017
Weon et al. 2012
Ue 2011
Zhu et al. 2016
Her and Lee 2015
Somvanshi et al. 2007
Hyun et al. 2022
(Clark and Hodgkin 2015) Nouioui et al. 2018
Kim and Lee 2011
Morais et al. 2006
Lee and Lee 2012
Benga et al. 2019
Clark and Hodgkin 2015
Fang et al. 2016
Chun et al. 2017
Yun et al. 2011 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Kämpfer et al. 2021
corrig. Reis et al. 2019
Behrendt et al. 2008
Sun et al. 2018
Hyun et al. 2022
Schumann and Pukall 2017
Lai et al. 2015
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
  Park et al. 1995 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
  Takeuchi et al. 1996 emend. Hyun et al. 2021

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 Leucobacter Takeuchi et al. 1996 emend. Hyun et al. 2021. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6139.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

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