Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9624

Name

Sphingobium japonicum Pal et al. 2005

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Sphingobium Takeuchi et al. 2001 emend. Li et al. 2013

Type Strain

representative organism

UT26^T (=CCM 7287 =MTCC 6362)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Sphingomonadales Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Sphingobium Takeuchi et al. 2001 emend. Li et al. 2013
species Sphingobium japonicum Pal 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 species Sphingobium japonicum Pal et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9624.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9624.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 13, 2019.

References

Pal R, Bala S, Dadhwal M, Kumar M, Dhingra G, Prakash O, Prabagaran SR, Shivaji S, Cullum J, Holliger C, Lal R. Hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterial strains Sphingomonas paucimobilis B90A, UT26 and Sp+, having similar lin genes, represent three distinct species, Sphingobium indicum sp. nov., Sphingobium japonicum sp. nov. and Sphingobium francense sp. nov., and reclassification of [Sphingomonas] chungbukensis as Sphingobium chungbukense comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1965-1972. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63201-0 [PubMed].