Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10123

Name

Costertonia Kwon et al. 2006

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	Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992 emend. García-López et al. 2019

Members

species	Costertonia aggregata Kwon et al. 2006

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 Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Flavobacteriia (Cavalier-Smith 1998) Bernardet 2012
order Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992 emend. García-López et al. 2019
genus Costertonia Kwon et al. 2006

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 Costertonia Kwon et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10123.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10123.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 30, 2009.

References

Kwon KK, Lee YK, Lee HK. Costertonia aggregata gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from a mature biofilm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1349-1353. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64168-0 [PubMed].