Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2288

Name

Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Beggiatoa alba (Vaucher 1803) Trevisan 1845 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Beggiatoa leptomitoformis Dubinina et al. 2017
species	Beggiatoa sp. None 2015

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 Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005
family Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (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 genus Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2288.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2288.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 25, 2018.

References

Trevisan V. Nomenclator Algarum, Impr du seminaire, Padone, 1845, p. 58-59.
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.
Dubinina G, Savvichev A, Orlova M, Gavrish E, Verbarg S, Grabovich M. Beggiatoa leptomitoformis sp. nov., the first freshwater member of the genus capable of chemolithoautotrophic growth. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:197-204. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001584 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Thiotrichaceae fam. nov. 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. 131.
No reference is available 2015