Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9528

Name

Saccharophagus Ekborg et al. 2005

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	Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015 emend. Altamia et al. 2021

Members

species	Saccharophagus degradans Ekborg et al. 2005

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Cellvibrionales Spring et al. 2015
family Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015 emend. Altamia et al. 2021
genus Saccharophagus Ekborg et al. 2005

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 Saccharophagus Ekborg et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9528.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9528.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 23, 2009.

References

Ekborg NA, Gonzalez JM, Howard MB, Taylor LE, Hutcheson SW, Weiner RM. Saccharophagus degradans gen. nov., sp. nov., a versatile marine degrader of complex polysaccharides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1545-1549. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63627-0 [PubMed].
Spring S, Scheuner C, Göker M, Klenk H-P. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front. Microbio. 2015; 6:281. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00281 [PubMed].