Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2311

Name

Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001

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	Piscirickettsia Fryer et al. 1992
genus	Cycloclasticus Dyksterhouse et al. 1995
genus	Galenea Giovannelli et al. 2012
genus	Hydrogenovibrio Nishihara et al. 1991 emend. Boden et al. 2017
genus	Methylophaga Janvier et al. 1985 emend. Boden 2012
genus	Sulfurivirga Takai et al. 2006
genus	Thialkalimicrobium (sic) Sorokin et al. 2001 emend. Sorokin et al. 2002
genus	Thiomicrorhabdus Boden et al. 2017 emend. Liu et al. 2021
genus	Thiomicrospira Kuenen and Veldkamp 1972 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Boden et al. 2017
genus	Thiosulfatimonas Mochizuki et al. 2022
genus	Thiosulfativibrio Mochizuki et al. 2022

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 Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001

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 Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2311.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2311.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 22, 2021.

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