Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2482

Name

Alcanivorax borkumensis Yakimov et al. 1998

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998 emend. Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 11573^T (=Sk2)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005
family Alcanivoraceae (sic) Golyshin et al. 2005
genus Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998 emend. Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003
species Alcanivorax borkumensis Yakimov et al. 1998

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 species Alcanivorax borkumensis Yakimov et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2482.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2482.xml

References

Yakimov MM, Golyshin PN, Lang S, Moore ER, Abraham WR, Lünsdorf H, Timmis KN. Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:339-348. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-2-339 [PubMed].