Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8391

Name

Sneathia Collins et al. 2002 emend. Eisenberg et al. 2021

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	Leptotrichiaceae Staley and Whitman 2012 emend. Gupta and Sethi 2014

Members

species	Sneathia sanguinegens Collins et al. 2002
species	Sneathia amnii Harwich et al. 2012
species	Sneathia vaginalis Eisenberg et al. 2021

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 Fusobacteriota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Fusobacteria (sic) Staley and Whitman 2012 non Fusobacteria Garrity and Holt 2021
order Fusobacteriales Staley and Whitman 2012
family Leptotrichiaceae Staley and Whitman 2012 emend. Gupta and Sethi 2014
genus Sneathia Collins et al. 2002 emend. Eisenberg 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 Sneathia Collins et al. 2002 emend. Eisenberg et al. 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8391.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8391.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 8, 2021.

References

Staley JT, Whitman WB. Family II. Leptotrichiaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 766.
Collins MD, Hoyles L, Törnqvist E, von Essen R, Falsen E. Characterization of some strains from human clinical sources which resemble Leptotrichia sanguinegens: description of Sneathia sanguinegens sp. nov., gen. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2001; 24:358-361. https://doi.org/10.1078/0723-2020-00047 [PubMed].
Eisenberg T, Gronow S, Falgenhauer J, Imirzalioglu C, Mühldorfer K, Rau J, Blom J, Fawzy A, Glaeser SP, Kämpfer P. Sneathia vaginalis sp. nov. (Fusobacteriales, Leptotrichiaceae) as a replacement of the species 'Sneathia amnii' Harwich et al. 2012 and 'Leptotrichia amnionii' Shukla et al. 2002, and emended description of Sneathia Collins et al. 2001. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004663 [PubMed].
Harwich MD, Serrano MG, Fettweis JM, Alves JMP, Reimers MA, Buck GA, Jefferson KK. Genomic sequence analysis and characterization of Sneathia amnii sp. nov. BMC Genomics 2012; 13 Suppl 8:S4-S4. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-S8-S4 [PubMed].