Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3102

Name

Arsenophonus Gherna et al. 1991

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	Morganellaceae Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Arsenophonus nasoniae Gherna et al. 1991
species	Arsenophonus arthropodicus Dale et al. 2006
species	Arsenophonus lipopteni (sic) Nováková et al. 2016
species	Arsenophonus melophagi Nováková et al. 2015
species	Arsenophonus nilaparvatae Fan et al. 2016
species	Arsenophonus phytopathogenicus Bressan et al. 2012
species	Arsenophonus triatominarum Hypša and Dale 1997

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 Enterobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Adeolu et al. 2016
family Morganellaceae Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Arsenophonus Gherna et al. 1991

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 Arsenophonus Gherna et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3102.

Source File

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This information was last reviewed on April 11, 2019.

References

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