Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2743

Name

Serpens Hespell 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Serpens flexibilis Hespell 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Liao et al. 2020
family Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Serpens Hespell 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Serpens Hespell 1977 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2743.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2743.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 18, 2017.

References

Hespell RB. Serpens flexibilis gen. nov., sp. nov., an unusually flexible lactate-oxidizing bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1977; 27:371-381. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-27-4-371.
Shin SK, Hwang CY, Cho YJ, Yi H. Reclassification of Serpens flexibilis Hespell 1977 as Pseudomonas flexibilis comb. nov., with Pseudomonas tuomuerensis Xin et al. 2009 as a later heterotypic synonym. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:563-566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2015.09.007 [PubMed].