Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3511

Name

Bilophila Baron et al. 1990

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	Desulfovibrionaceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Bilophila wadsworthia Baron et al. 1990
species	Bilophila sp. None 2015

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 Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfovibrionia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfovibrionales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfovibrionaceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Bilophila Baron et al. 1990

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 Bilophila Baron et al. 1990. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3511.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3511.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 24, 2010.

References

Baron EJ, Summanen P, Downes J, Roberts MC, Wexler H, Finegold SM. Bilophila wadsworthia, gen. nov. and sp. nov., a unique gram-negative anaerobic rod recovered from appendicitis specimens and human faeces. J Gen Microbiol 1989; 135:3405-3411. https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-135-12-3405 [PubMed].
Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Desulfovibrionaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 926.
No reference is available 2015