Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8991

Name

Microcyclus Ørskov 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Xanthobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Microcyclus aquaticus Ørskov 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Microcyclus marinus Raj 1976

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Xanthobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Microcyclus Ørskov 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Microcyclus Ørskov 1928 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8991.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8991.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 17, 2019.

References

Raj HD. A new species: Microcyclus marinus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1976; 26:528-544. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-26-4-528.
Lang E, Swiderski J, Stackebrandt E, Schumann P, Spröer C, Sahin N. Description of Ancylobacter oerskovii sp. nov. and two additional strains of Ancylobacter polymorphus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1997-2002. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65666-0 [PubMed].
Ørskov J. Beschreibung eines neuen Microben, Microcyclus aquaticus, mit eigentümlicher Morphologie. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1928; 107:180-184.
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].