Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7635

Name

Frankia Brunchorst 1886 emend. Becking 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Frankiaceae Becking 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009

Members

species	Frankia alni (Woronin 1866) Von Tubeuf 1895 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2016
species	Frankia alpina Pozzi et al. 2020
species	Frankia asymbiotica Nouioui et al. 2017
species	Frankia californiensis Normand et al. 2017
species	Frankia canadensis Normand et al. 2018
species	Frankia casuarinae Nouioui et al. 2016
species	Frankia coriariae Nouioui et al. 2017
species	Frankia datiscae Persson et al. 2011
species	Frankia discariae Nouioui et al. 2017
species	Frankia elaeagni Nouioui et al. 2016
species	Frankia inefficax Nouioui et al. 2017
species	Frankia irregularis Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Frankia meridionalis Nguyen et al. 2019
species	Frankia nodulisporulans Herrera-Belaroussi et al. 2020
species	Frankia saprophytica Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Frankia soli Gtari et al. 2020
species	Frankia torreyi Nouioui et al. 2019
species	Frankia sp. None 2015

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 Frankiales Sen et al. 2014
family Frankiaceae Becking 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Frankia Brunchorst 1886 emend. Becking 1974 (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 Frankia Brunchorst 1886 emend. Becking 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7635.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7635.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 8, 2021.

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