Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10420

Name

Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007 emend. Iino et al. 2015

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	Prolixibacteraceae Huang et al. 2014 emend. Iino et al. 2014

Members

species	Prolixibacter bellariivorans Holmes et al. 2007 emend. Iino et al. 2015
species	Prolixibacter denitrificans Iino et al. 2015

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 Bacteroidia corrig. Krieg 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
order Bacteroidales Krieg 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Prolixibacteraceae Huang et al. 2014 emend. Iino et al. 2014
genus Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007 emend. Iino 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 genus Prolixibacter Holmes et al. 2007 emend. Iino et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10420.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10420.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 20, 2015.

References

Iino T, Sakamoto S, Ohkuma M. Prolixibacter denitrificans sp. nov., an iron-corroding facultative aerobic nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from crude oil, and emended descriptions of the genus Prolixibacter and Prolixibacter bellariivorans. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2865-2869. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000343 [PubMed].
Huang X-F, Liu YJ, Dong J-D, Qu L-Y, Zhang Y-Y, Wang F-Z, Tian X-P, Zhang S. Mangrovibacterium diazotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from a mangrove sediment, and proposal of Prolixibacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:875-881. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.052779-0 [PubMed].
Holmes DE, Nevin KP, Woodard TL, Peacock AD, Lovley DR. Prolixibacter bellariivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting, psychrotolerant anaerobe of the phylum Bacteroidetes, isolated from a marine-sediment fuel cell. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:701-707. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64296-0 [PubMed].