Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8924

Name

Colwelliaceae Ivanova et al. 2004

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005

Members

genus	Colwellia Deming et al. 1988 emend. Liu et al. 2020
genus	Cognaticolwellia Liu et al. 2021
genus	Litorilituus Wang et al. 2019
genus	Pseudocolwellia Liu et al. 2021
genus	Thalassomonas Macián et al. 2001 emend. Zhang et al. 2014
genus	Thalassotalea Zhang et al. 2014 emend. Hou et al. 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005
family Colwelliaceae Ivanova et al. 2004

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 family Colwelliaceae Ivanova et al. 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8924.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8924.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2021.

References

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Zhang Y, Tang K, Shi X, Zhang X-H. Description of Thalassotalea piscium gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus), reclassification of four species of the genus Thalassomonas as members of the genus Thalassotalea gen. nov. and emended description of the genus Thalassomonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1223-1228. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.055913-0 [PubMed].
Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02997-0 [PubMed].
Liu A, Zhang Y-J, Cheng P, Peng Y-J, Blom J, Xue Q-J. Whole genome analysis calls for a taxonomic rearrangement of the genus Colwellia. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:919-931. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-020-01405-6 [PubMed].