Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3342

Name

Xenorhabdus Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Akhurst 1983

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	Xenorhabdus nematophila corrig. (Poinar and Thomas 1965) Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Xenorhabdus beddingii (Akhurst 1986) Akhurst and Boemare 1993
species	Xenorhabdus bovienii (Akhurst 1983) Akhurst and Boemare 1993
species	Xenorhabdus budapestensis Lengyel et al. 2005
species	Xenorhabdus cabanillasii Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus doucetiae Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus eapokensis Kämpfer et al. 2017
species	Xenorhabdus ehlersii Lengyel et al. 2005
species	Xenorhabdus griffiniae Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus hominickii Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus indica Somvanshi et al. 2009
species	Xenorhabdus innexi Lengyel et al. 2005
species	Xenorhabdus ishibashii Kuwata et al. 2013
species	Xenorhabdus japonica corrig. Nishimura et al. 1995
species	Xenorhabdus khoisanae Ferreira et al. 2013
species	Xenorhabdus koppenhoeferi Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus kozodoii Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus lircayensis Castaneda-Alvarez et al. 2021
species	Xenorhabdus luminescens Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Xenorhabdus magdalenensis Tailliez et al. 2012
species	Xenorhabdus mauleonii Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus miraniensis Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus poinarii (Akhurst 1983) Akhurst and Boemare 1993
species	Xenorhabdus romanii Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus stockiae Tailliez et al. 2006
species	Xenorhabdus szentirmaii Lengyel et al. 2005
species	Xenorhabdus thuongxuanensis Kämpfer et al. 2017
species	Xenorhabdus vietnamensis Tailliez et al. 2010

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 Xenorhabdus Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Akhurst 1983

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 Xenorhabdus Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Akhurst 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3342.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3342.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

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