Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8583

Name

Formosa Ivanova et al. 2004 emend. García-López et al. 2019

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	Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992 emend. García-López et al. 2019

Members

species	Formosa algae Ivanova et al. 2004 emend. García-López et al. 2019
species	Formosa agariphila Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Formosa arctica Kwon et al. 2014
species	Formosa haliotis Tanaka et al. 2015
species	Formosa maritima Cao et al. 2020
species	Formosa sediminum Han et al. 2020
species	Formosa spongicola Yoon and Oh 2011
species	Formosa undariae Park et al. 2013

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 Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Flavobacteriia (Cavalier-Smith 1998) Bernardet 2012
order Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992 emend. García-López et al. 2019
genus Formosa Ivanova et al. 2004 emend. García-López et al. 2019

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 Formosa Ivanova et al. 2004 emend. García-López et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8583.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8583.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 3, 2020.

References

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Yoon B-J, Oh D-C. Formosa spongicola sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Hymeniacidon flavia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:330-333. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.023499-0 [PubMed].
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Han B, Kim M, Lee K-E, Lee B-H, Lee E-Y, Park S-J. Formosa sediminum sp. nov., a starch-degrading bacterium isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2008-2015. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004012 [PubMed].
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