Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.17924

Name

Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005

Members

genus	Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Halobeggiatoa Grünke et al. 2012
genus	Isobeggiatoa Salman et al. 2011
genus	Maribeggiatoa Salman et al. 2011
genus	Marithioploca Salman et al. 2011
genus	Marithrix Salman et al. 2011
genus	Parabeggiatoa Salman et al. 2011
genus	Thioflexithrix Gureeva et al. 2019
genus	Thiomargarita Schulz et al. 1999
genus	Thiophysa (ex Hinze 1903) Salman et al. 2011
genus	Thiopilula Salman et al. 2011
genus	Thioploca Lauterborn 1907 emend. Maier 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Vitreoscilla Pringsheim 1949 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005
family Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.17924.

Source File

10.1601/tx.17924.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

References

Leadbetter ER. Genus Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842, 56; Nom. cons. Opin. 13, Jud. Comm. 1954, 152. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 113-114.
Leadbetter ER. Order II. Cytophagales Nomen novum. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 99.
Gureeva MV, Belousova EV, Dubinina GA, Novikov AA, Kopitsyn DS, Grabovich MY. Thioflexithrix psekupsensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous gliding sulfur bacterium from the family Beggiatoaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:798-804. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003240 [PubMed].
Grünke S, Lichtschlag A, de Beer D, Felden J, Salman V, Ramette A, Schulz-Vogt H N, Boetius A. Mats of psychrophilic thiotrophic bacteria associated with cold seeps of the Barents Sea. Biogeosciences 2012; 9:2947-2960. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-2947-2012.
Strohl WR. Genus III. Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842, 56AL. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 148-161.
Salman V, Amann R, Girnth A-C, Polerecky L, Bailey JV, Høgslund S, Jessen G, Pantoja S, Schulz-Vogt HN. A single-cell sequencing approach to the classification of large, vacuolated sulfur bacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2011; 34:243-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2011.02.001 [PubMed].
Buchanan RE. Family II. Leucotrichaceae Buchanan, Fam. Nov. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Seventh Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 850-851.