Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8976

Name

Bacteriovoracaceae Davidov and Jurkevitch 2004 emend. Koval et al. 2015

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	Bacteriovoracales Hahn et al. 2017 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Members

genus	Bacteriovorax Baer et al. 2000
genus	Bacteriolyticum Piñeiro et al. 2008

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 Bdellovibrionota Waite et al. 2021
class Bacteriovoracia Waite et al. 2020
order Bacteriovoracales Hahn et al. 2017 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Bacteriovoracaceae Davidov and Jurkevitch 2004 emend. Koval et al. 2015

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 Bacteriovoracaceae Davidov and Jurkevitch 2004 emend. Koval et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8976.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8976.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 20, 2017.

References

Piñeiro SA, Williams HN, Stine OC. Phylogenetic relationships amongst the saltwater members of the genus Bacteriovorax using rpoB sequences and reclassification of Bacteriovorax stolpii as Bacteriolyticum stolpii gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1203-1209. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65710-0 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order VII. Bdellovibrionales ord. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1040.
Hahn MW, Schmidt J, Koll U, Rohde M, Verbarg S, Pitt A, Nakai R, Naganuma T, Lang E. Silvanigrella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, description of Silvanigrellaceae fam. nov. and Silvanigrellales ord. nov., reclassification of the order Bdellovibrionales in the class Oligoflexia, reclassification of the families Bacteriovoracaceae and Halobacteriovoraceae in the new order Bacteriovoracales ord. nov., and reclassification of the family Pseudobacteriovoracaceae in the order Oligoflexales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2555-2568. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001965 [PubMed].
Koval SF, Williams HN, Stine OC. Reclassification of Bacteriovorax marinus as Halobacteriovorax marinus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov.; description of Halobacteriovoraceae fam. nov. in the class Deltaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:593-597. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.070201-0 [PubMed].