Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2290

Name

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

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	Leucothrix mucor Oersted 1844 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Leucothrix arctica Baek et al. 2018
species	Leucothrix pacifica Zhang et al. 2015
species	Leucothrix sargassi Liu et al. 2019

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

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 Leucothrix Oersted 1844 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhang et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2290.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2290.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 4, 2019.

References

Baek K, Choi A, Lee YM, Lee HK, Cho J-C. Leucothrix arctica sp. nov., isolated from Arctic seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3851-3855. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003072 [PubMed].
Oersted AS. "Dissertation: De Regionibus marinis. Elementa Topographiae Historiconaturalis Freti Oeresund." University of Copenhagen, 1844, p. 1-88.
Zhang Z, Gao X, Wang L, Zhang X-H. Leucothrix pacifica sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Leucothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2397-2402. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000270 [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.
Liu T, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Zhou L, Meng C, Zhou C, Jing C, Zhu W, Wang Y. Leucothrix sargassi sp. nov., isolated from a marine alga [Sargassum natans (L.) Gaillon]. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3857-3862. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003694 [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.