Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8397

Names

Verrucomicrobia (sic) Hedlund 2021, Verrucomicrobiota corrig. Hedlund 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	Incertae sedis 166 None 2015
class	Incertae sedis 310 Hou et al. 2008
class	Incertae sedis 513 Sato et al. 2014
class	Opitutae Choo et al. 2007
class	Spartobacteria Sangwan et al. 2004
class	Terrimicrobia García-López et al. 2020
class	Verrucomicrobiae Hedlund et al. 1998 emend. Yoon et al. 2008

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 Verrucomicrobia (sic) Hedlund 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 Verrucomicrobia (sic) Hedlund 2021 and Verrucomicrobiota corrig. Hedlund 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8397.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8397.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 15, 2021.

References

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