Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.31850

Name

Thiofilum flexile (Aruga et al. 2002) Boden and Scott 2018

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Thiofilum Boden and Scott 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

EJ2M-B^T (=DSM 14609 =JCM 11135)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Incertae sedis 217 Boden and Scott 2018
family Thiofilaceae Boden and Scott 2018
genus Thiofilum Boden and Scott 2018
species Thiofilum flexile (Aruga et al. 2002) Boden and Scott 2018

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 species Thiofilum flexile (Aruga et al. 2002) Boden and Scott 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.31850.

Source File

10.1601/tx.31850.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 12, 2018.

References

Boden R, Scott KM. Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2226-2239. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002816 [PubMed].