Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1669

Name

Polynucleobacter Heckmann and Schmidt 1987 emend. Hahn et al. 2009

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	Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Polynucleobacter necessarius Heckmann and Schmidt 1987 emend. Hahn et al. 2016
species	Polynucleobacter acidiphobus Hahn et al. 2011
species	Polynucleobacter aenigmaticus Hahn et al. 2017
species	Polynucleobacter alcilacus Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter antarcticus Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter arcticus Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter asymbioticus (Hahn et al. 2009) Hahn et al. 2016
species	Polynucleobacter bastaniensis Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter brandtiae Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter campilacus Hahn et al. 2018
species	Polynucleobacter corsicus Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus Hahn et al. 2010
species	Polynucleobacter difficilis Hahn et al. 2012
species	Polynucleobacter duraquae Hahn et al. 2016
species	Polynucleobacter finlandensis Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter hallstattensis Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter hirudinilacicola Hahn et al. 2018
species	Polynucleobacter ibericus Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter kasalickyi Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter meluiroseus Pitt et al. 2018
species	Polynucleobacter nymphae Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter paludilacus Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter paneuropaeus Hoetzinger et al. 2019
species	Polynucleobacter parvulilacunae Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter rarus Hahn et al. 2011
species	Polynucleobacter sinensis Hahn et al. 2016
species	Polynucleobacter sphagniphilus Hahn et al. 2017
species	Polynucleobacter tropicus Hahn et al. 2022
species	Polynucleobacter victoriensis Hahn et al. 2017
species	Polynucleobacter wuianus Hahn et al. 2017
species	Polynucleobacter yangtzensis Hahn et al. 2016

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Polynucleobacter Heckmann and Schmidt 1987 emend. Hahn et al. 2009

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 Polynucleobacter Heckmann and Schmidt 1987 emend. Hahn et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1669.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1669.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2022.

References

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Hahn MW, Minasyan A, Lang E, Koll U, Spröer C. Polynucleobacter difficilis sp. nov., a planktonic freshwater bacterium affiliated with subcluster B1 of the genus Polynucleobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:376-383. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.031393-0 [PubMed].
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