Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.17935

Name

Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957 (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	Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019

Members

genus	Leucothrix Oersted 1844 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhang et al. 2015

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 Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Cytophagia Nakagawa 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
order Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957 (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 Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.17935.

Source File

10.1601/tx.17935.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 12, 2018.

References

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.
Boden R, Scott KM. Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2226-2239. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002816 [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.