Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.31502

Name

Moorea Engene et al. 2012

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	Oscillatoriaceae None 2015

Members

species	Moorea producens Engene et al. 2012
species	Moorea bouillonii (Hoffman and Demoulin 1991) Engene et al. 2012

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 Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006
class Cyanobacteria (Stanier 1973) Woese et al. 2006 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985
order Subsection III (Schaffner 1922) Castenholz et al. 2001
family Oscillatoriaceae None 2015
genus Moorea Engene et al. 2012

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 Moorea Engene et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.31502.

Source File

10.1601/tx.31502.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 1, 2018.

References

Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.
Engene N, Rottacker EC, Kaštovský J, Byrum T, Choi H, Ellisman MH, Komárek J, Gerwick WH. Moorea producens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Moorea bouillonii comb. nov., tropical marine cyanobacteria rich in bioactive secondary metabolites. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1171-1178. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.033761-0 [PubMed].