Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4171

Name

Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019

Members

genus	Peptostreptococcus Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ezaki et al. 2001
genus	Asaccharospora Gerritsen et al. 2014
genus	Clostridioides Lawson et al. 2016
genus	Criibacterium Maheux et al. 2021
genus	Filifactor Collins et al. 1994
genus	Intestinibacter Gerritsen et al. 2014
genus	Maledivibacter Li et al. 2016
genus	Paramaledivibacter Li et al. 2016
genus	Peptacetobacter Chen et al. 2020
genus	Peptoanaerobacter Sizova et al. 2016
genus	Peptoclostridium Yutin and Galperin 2013 non Peptoclostridium Galperin et al. 2016
genus	Peptoclostridium Galperin et al. 2016 non Peptoclostridium Yutin and Galperin 2013
genus	Romboutsia Gerritsen et al. 2014 emend. Wang et al. 2015
genus	Tepidibacter Slobodkin et al. 2003 emend. Tan et al. 2012
genus	Terrisporobacter Gerritsen et al. 2014
genus	Wukongibacter Li et al. 2016

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010

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 family Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4171.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4171.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 8, 2021.

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