Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.809
Name
 Garrity et al. 2006
Taxonomic Rank
class
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
(sic) Garrity et al. 2021
Members
Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)
Iino et al. 2016
Szokoli et al. 2020
Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Kevbrin et al. 2021
Tirandaz et al. 2015
None 2015
None 2015
Kragelund et al. 2006
Kragelund et al. 2006
None 2015
Kwan et al. 2012
Anderson and Haygood 2007
Bing et al. 2013
Horn et al. 1999
Kanamori et al. 2002
None 2015
None 2015
Iino et al. 2016
Wiese et al. 2009
Kwon et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Bazylinski et al. 2013
Kevbrin et al. 2021
Podell et al. 2020
Harbison et al. 2017
Sun et al. 2018
Garrity et al. 2003
Grote et al. 2012
Kuykendall 2006
Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Venkata Ramana et al. 2014
Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
Kurahashi et al. 2008
Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this class within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2006

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 class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.809.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 9, 2021.

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