Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5466

Name

Abiotrophia Kawamura et al. 1995

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	Aerococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Members

species	Abiotrophia defectiva (Bouvet et al. 1989) Kawamura et al. 1995
species	Abiotrophia adiacens (Bouvet et al. 1989) Kawamura et al. 1995
species	Abiotrophia balaenopterae Lawson et al. 1999
species	Abiotrophia elegans Roggenkamp et al. 1999
species	Abiotrophia 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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Aerococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Abiotrophia Kawamura et al. 1995

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 Abiotrophia Kawamura et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5466.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5466.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 25, 2018.

References

Lawson PA, Foster G, Falsen E, Sjödén B, Collins MD. Abiotrophia balaenopterae sp. nov., isolated from the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:503-506. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-2-503 [PubMed].
Kawamura Y, Hou XG, Sultana F, Liu S, Yamamoto H, Ezaki T. Transfer of Streptococcus adjacens and Streptococcus defectivus to Abiotrophia gen. nov. as Abiotrophia adiacens comb. nov. and Abiotrophia defectiva comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:798-803. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-4-798 [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015
Roggenkamp A, Abele-Horn M, Trebesius KH, Tretter U, Autenrieth IB, Heesemann J. Abiotrophia elegans sp. nov., a possible pathogen in patients with culture-negative endocarditis. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36:100-104. [PubMed].