Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14409

Name

Gracilibacteraceae Lee et al. 2010

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019

Members

genus	Gracilibacter Lee et al. 2006

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Gracilibacteraceae Lee et al. 2010

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 family Gracilibacteraceae Lee et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14409.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14409.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 19, 2019.

References

Rainey FA. Order I. Clostridiales Prevot 1953. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 736-1191.
Lee YJ, Romanek CS, Mills GL, Davis RC, Whitman WB, Wiegel J. Gracilibacter thermotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermotolerant bacterium from a constructed wetland receiving acid sulfate water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2089-2093. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64040-0 [PubMed].
Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.059543-0 [PubMed].