Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.22788

Name

Christensenella Morotomi et al. 2012

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	Christensenellaceae Morotomi et al. 2012

Members

species	Christensenella minuta Morotomi et al. 2012
species	Christensenella hongkongensis (Lau et al. 2014) Liu et al. 2021
species	Christensenella intestinihominis Zou et al. 2021
species	Christensenella tenuis Liu et al. 2022

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Christensenellaceae Morotomi et al. 2012
genus Christensenella Morotomi et al. 2012

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 Christensenella Morotomi et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.22788.

Source File

10.1601/tx.22788.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 22, 2022.

References

Zou Y, Xue W, Lin X, Hu T, Liu S-W, Sun C-H, Luo G, Lv M, Dai Y, Kristiansen K, Xiao L. Taxonomic Description and Genome Sequence of Christensenella intestinihominis sp. nov., a Novel Cholesterol-Lowering Bacterium Isolated From Human Gut. Front. Microbio. 2021; 12:632361-632361. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.632361 [PubMed].
Liu X, Sutter JL, de la Cuesta-Zuluaga J, Waters JL, Youngblut ND, Ley RE. Reclassification of Catabacter hongkongensis as Christensenella hongkongensis comb. nov. based on whole genome analysis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004774 [PubMed].
Morotomi M, Nagai F, Watanabe Y. Description of Christensenella minuta gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces, which forms a distinct branch in the order Clostridiales, and proposal of Christensenellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:144-149. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.026989-0 [PubMed].
Liu C, Du M-X, Abuduaini R, Yu H-Y, Li D-H, Wang Y-J, Zhou N, Jiang M-Z, Niu P-X, Han S-S, Chen H-H, Shi W-Y, Wu L, Xin Y-H, Ma J, Zhou Y, Jiang C-Y, Liu H-W, Liu S-J. Enlightening the taxonomy darkness of human gut microbiomes with a cultured biobank. Microbiome 2021; 9:119-119. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01064-3 [PubMed].