Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25842

Name

Oligoflexia Nakai et al. 2014 emend. Waite et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

class

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
phylum	Bdellovibrionota Waite et al. 2021

Members

order	Oligoflexales Nakai et al. 2014 emend. Waite et al. 2020
order	Bacteriovoracales Hahn et al. 2017 emend. Waite et al. 2020
order	Bdellovibrionales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
order	Silvanigrellales Hahn et al. 2017

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this class within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Bdellovibrionota Waite et al. 2021
class Oligoflexia Nakai et al. 2014 emend. Waite et al. 2020

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 class Oligoflexia Nakai et al. 2014 emend. Waite et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25842.

Source File

10.1601/tx.25842.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 3, 2020.

References

Nakai R, Nishijima M, Tazato N, Handa Y, Karray F, Sayadi S, Isoda H, Naganuma T. Oligoflexus tunisiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, filamentous bacterium of a novel proteobacterial lineage, and description of Oligoflexaceae fam. nov., Oligoflexales ord. nov. and Oligoflexia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3353-3359. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.060798-0 [PubMed].
Hahn MW, Schmidt J, Koll U, Rohde M, Verbarg S, Pitt A, Nakai R, Naganuma T, Lang E. Silvanigrella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, description of Silvanigrellaceae fam. nov. and Silvanigrellales ord. nov., reclassification of the order Bdellovibrionales in the class Oligoflexia, reclassification of the families Bacteriovoracaceae and Halobacteriovoraceae in the new order Bacteriovoracales ord. nov., and reclassification of the family Pseudobacteriovoracaceae in the order Oligoflexales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2555-2568. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001965 [PubMed].
Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004213 [PubMed].