Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2303

Name

Francisellaceae Sjöstedt 2005 emend. Larson et al. 2016

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	Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005

Members

genus	Francisella Dorofe'ev 1947 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Huber et al. 2010
genus	Allofrancisella Qu et al. 2016
genus	Cysteiniphilum Liu et al. 2017
genus	Fangia Lau et al. 2007
genus	Nebulobacter (sic) Boscaro et al. 2012
genus	Pseudofrancisella Zheng et al. 2019

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005
family Francisellaceae Sjöstedt 2005 emend. Larson et al. 2016

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 Francisellaceae Sjöstedt 2005 emend. Larson et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2303.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2303.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 4, 2019.

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