Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1076

Name

Leisingera Schaefer et al. 2002 emend. Breider et al. 2014

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	Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Members

species	Leisingera methylohalidivorans Schaefer et al. 2002 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Leisingera aquaemixtae (Park et al. 2014) Breider et al. 2014
species	Leisingera aquimarina Vandecandelaere et al. 2008
species	Leisingera caerulea (Vandecandelaere et al. 2009) Breider et al. 2014
species	Leisingera daeponensis (Yoon et al. 2007) Breider et al. 2014
species	Leisingera nanhaiensis Sun et al. 2010 emend. Breider et al. 2013

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 Rhodobacterales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021
genus Leisingera Schaefer et al. 2002 emend. Breider et al. 2014

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 Leisingera Schaefer et al. 2002 emend. Breider et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1076.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1076.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 13, 2021.

References

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Sun F, Wang B, Liu X, Lai Q, Du Y, Li G, Luo J, Shao Z. Leisingera nanhaiensis sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:275-280. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.010439-0 [PubMed].
Vandecandelaere I, Segaert E, Mollica A, Faimali M, Vandamme P. Leisingera aquimarina sp. nov., isolated from a marine electroactive biofilm, and emended descriptions of Leisingera methylohalidivorans Schaefer et al. 2002, Phaeobacter daeponensis Yoon et al. 2007 and Phaeobacter inhibens Martens et al. 2006. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2788-2793. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65844-0 [PubMed].
Breider S, Scheuner C, Schumann P, Fiebig A, Petersen J, Pradella S, Klenk H-P, Brinkhoff T, Göker M. Genome-scale data suggest reclassifications in the Leisingera-Phaeobacter cluster including proposals for Sedimentitalea gen.nov. and Pseudophaeobacter gen.nov. Front. Microbio. 2014; 5:416. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00416 [PubMed].
Martens T, Heidorn T, Pukall R, Simon M, Tindall BJ, Brinkhoff T. Reclassification of Roseobacter gallaeciensis Ruiz-Ponte et al. 1998 as Phaeobacter gallaeciensis gen. nov., comb. nov., description of Phaeobacter inhibens sp. nov., reclassification of Ruegeria algicola (Lafay et al. 1995) Uchino et al. 1999 as Marinovum algicola gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended descriptions of the genera Roseobacter, Ruegeria and Leisingera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1293-1304. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63724-0 [PubMed].
Schaefer JK, Goodwin KD, McDonald IR, Murrell JC, Oremland RS. Leisingera methylohalidivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine methylotroph that grows on methyl bromide. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:851-859. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-3-851 [PubMed].