Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.8248
Name
 Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
Members
Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
(Lewin 1969) Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
Christensen 1980
(ex Davis 1922) Bernardet and Grimont 1989
(ex Lewin 1969) Reichenbach 1989
(ex Solntseva 1940) Reichenbach 1989
Fujita et al. 1997
Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
Wakabayashi et al. 1986 emend. Bernardet and Grimont 1989
Hansen et al. 1992
Lewin 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
(ex Borg 1960) Bernardet and Grimont 1989
Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Lewin 1969) Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
  Nakagawa 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
  Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
  Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
  Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016

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 Flexibacter Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8248.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on February 26, 2020.

References

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