Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4375

Name

Acetonema Kane and Breznak 1992

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	Sporomusaceae Campbell et al. 2015

Members

species	Acetonema longum Kane and Breznak 1992

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Negativicutes Marchandin et al. 2010
order Selenomonadales Marchandin et al. 2010 emend. Campbell et al. 2015
family Sporomusaceae Campbell et al. 2015
genus Acetonema Kane and Breznak 1992

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 Acetonema Kane and Breznak 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4375.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4375.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2010.

References

Kane MD, Breznak JA. Acetonema longum gen. nov. sp. nov., an H2/CO2 acetogenic bacterium from the termite, Pterotermes occidentis. Arch Microbiol 1991; 156:91-98. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00290979 [PubMed].
Campbell C, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Genome-based taxonomic framework for the class Negativicutes: division of the class Negativicutes into the orders Selenomonadales emend., Acidaminococcales ord. nov. and Veillonellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3203-3215. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000347 [PubMed].