Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8410

Name

Opitutus terrae Chin et al. 2001 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Opitutus Chin et al. 2001 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

PB90-1^T (=JCM 15787 =DSM 11246)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
class Opitutae Choo et al. 2007
order Opitutales Choo et al. 2007
family Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018
genus Opitutus Chin et al. 2001 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018
species Opitutus terrae Chin et al. 2001 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018

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 species Opitutus terrae Chin et al. 2001 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8410.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8410.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 30, 2018.

References

Chin KJ, Liesack W, Janssen PH. Opitutus terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., to accommodate novel strains of the division 'Verrucomicrobia' isolated from rice paddy soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1965-1968. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-6-1965 [PubMed].