Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32168

Name

Amoebophilus Horn et al. 2001

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	Incertae sedis 255 Horn et al. 2001

Members

species	Amoebophilus asiaticus Horn et al. 2001

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 Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Incertae sedis 253 Horn et al. 2001
order Incertae sedis 254 Horn et al. 2001
family Incertae sedis 255 Horn et al. 2001
genus Amoebophilus Horn et al. 2001

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 Amoebophilus Horn et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32168.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32168.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 9, 2018.

References

Horn M, Harzenetter MD, Linner T, Schmid EN, Müller KD, Michel R, Wagner M. Members of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides phylum as intracellular bacteria of acanthamoebae: proposal of 'Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus'. Environ Microbiol 2001; 3:440-9. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2001.00210.x [PubMed].