Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.33049

Name

Megasphaera stantonii Maki and Looft 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	Megasphaera Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Marchandin et al. 2003

Type Strain

representative organism

AJH120^T (=DSM 106750 =CCUG 71842)

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Negativicutes Marchandin et al. 2010
order Veillonellales Campbell et al. 2015
family Veillonellaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Campbell et al. 2015
genus Megasphaera Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Marchandin et al. 2003
species Megasphaera stantonii Maki and Looft 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 Megasphaera stantonii Maki and Looft 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.33049.

Source File

10.1601/tx.33049.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 29, 2018.

References

Maki JJ, Looft T. Megasphaera stantonii sp. nov., a butyrate-producing bacterium isolated from the cecum of a healthy chicken. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3409-3415. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002991 [PubMed].