Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.20221

Name

Orbus Volkmann et al. 2010 emend. Kim et al. 2013

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	Orbaceae Kwong and Moran 2013

Members

species	Orbus hercynius Volkmann et al. 2010
species	Orbus sasakiae Kim 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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Orbales Kwong and Moran 2013
family Orbaceae Kwong and Moran 2013
genus Orbus Volkmann et al. 2010 emend. Kim et al. 2013

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 Orbus Volkmann et al. 2010 emend. Kim et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.20221.

Source File

10.1601/tx.20221.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 17, 2010.

References

Kwong WK, Moran NA. Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the Betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order ‘Enterobacteriales’ of the Gammaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2008-2018. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.044875-0 [PubMed].
Kim JY, Lee J, Shin N-R, Yun J-H, Whon TW, Kim M-S, Jung M-J, Roh SW, Hyun D-W, Bae J-W. Orbus sasakiae sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from the gut of the butterfly Sasakia charonda, and emended description of the genus Orbus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1766-1770. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.041871-0 [PubMed].
Volkmann M, Skiebe E, Kerrinnes T, Faber F, Lepka D, Pfeifer Y, Holland G, Bannert N, Wilharm G. Orbus hercynius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from faeces of wild boar, is most closely related to members of the orders ‘Enterobacteriales’ and Pasteurellales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2601-2605. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.019026-0 [PubMed].