Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.808

Names

Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021, Pseudomonadota corrig. Garrity et al. 2021, Alphaproteobacteriota (sic) Garrity et al. 2021

Taxonomic Rank

phylum

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
domain	Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990

Members

class	Acidithiobacillia Williams and Kelly 2013
class	Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
class	Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
class	Deltabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002
class	Deltaproteobacteria Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Hahn et al. 2017
class	Epsilonproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
class	Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
class	Hydrogenophilalia Boden et al. 2017
class	Oligoflexia Nakai et al. 2014 emend. Waite et al. 2020
class	Zetaproteobacteria (sic) Makita et al. 2017

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this phylum within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity 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 phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021, Pseudomonadota corrig. Garrity et al. 2021 and Alphaproteobacteriota (sic) Garrity et al. 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.808.

Source File

10.1601/tx.808.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 26, 2021.

References

Williams KP, Kelly DP. Proposal for a new class within the phylum Proteobacteria, Acidithiobacillia classis nov., with the type order Acidithiobacillales, and emended description of the class Gammaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2901-2906. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.049270-0 [PubMed].
Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the ‘Proteobacteria’, and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001927 [PubMed].
Nakai R, Nishijima M, Tazato N, Handa Y, Karray F, Sayadi S, Isoda H, Naganuma T. Oligoflexus tunisiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, filamentous bacterium of a novel proteobacterial lineage, and description of Oligoflexaceae fam. nov., Oligoflexales ord. nov. and Oligoflexia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3353-3359. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.060798-0 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class II. Betaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 575.
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class V. Epsilonproteobacteria class. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1145.
Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A Novel Lineage of Proteobacteria Involved in Formation of Marine Fe-Oxidizing Microbial Mat Communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000667 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class III. Gammaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Class IV. Deltaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 922.
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.
Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.069310-0 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 119-169.