Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2545

Name

Oleiphilus Golyshin et al. 2002

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	Oleiphilaceae Golyshin et al. 2002

Members

species	Oleiphilus messinensis Golyshin et al. 2002

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 Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005
family Oleiphilaceae Golyshin et al. 2002
genus Oleiphilus Golyshin et al. 2002

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 Oleiphilus Golyshin et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2545.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2545.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 4, 2009.

References

Golyshin PN, Chernikova TN, Abraham W-R, Lünsdorf H, Timmis KN, Yakimov MM. Oleiphilaceae fam. nov., to include Oleiphilus messinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:901-11. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-3-901 [PubMed].