Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6026

Name

Tetrasphaera Maszenan et al. 2000 emend. Ishikawa and Yokota 2006

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	Intrasporangiaceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Members

species	Tetrasphaera japonica Maszenan et al. 2000
species	Tetrasphaera australiensis Maszenan et al. 2000
species	Tetrasphaera duodecadis (Lochhead 1958) Ishikawa and Yokota 2006
species	Tetrasphaera elongata Hanada et al. 2002
species	Tetrasphaera jenkinsii McKenzie et al. 2006 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Tetrasphaera remsis Osman et al. 2007
species	Tetrasphaera vanveenii McKenzie et al. 2006
species	Tetrasphaera veronensis McKenzie et al. 2006

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Dermatophilales Salam et al. 2020
family Intrasporangiaceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Tetrasphaera Maszenan et al. 2000 emend. Ishikawa and Yokota 2006

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 Tetrasphaera Maszenan et al. 2000 emend. Ishikawa and Yokota 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6026.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6026.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 10, 2009.

References

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Ishikawa T, Yokota A. Reclassification of Arthrobacter duodecadis Lochhead 1958 as Tetrasphaera duodecadis comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Tetrasphaera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1369-1373. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02984-0 [PubMed].
McKenzie CM, Seviour EM, Schumann P, Maszenan AM, Liu JR, Webb RI, Monis P, Saint CP, Steiner U, Seviour RJ. Isolates of 'Candidatus Nostocoida limicola' Blackall et al. 2000 should be described as three novel species of the genus Tetrasphaera, as Tetrasphaera jenkinsii sp. nov., Tetrasphaera vanveenii sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera veronensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2279-2290. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63978-0 [PubMed].
Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BKC, Schumann P, Burghardt J, Tokiwa Y, Stratton HM. Three isolates of novel polyphosphate-accumulating gram-positive cocci, obtained from activated sludge, belong to a new genus, Tetrasphaera gen. nov., and description of two new species, Tetrasphaera japonica sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera australiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:593-603. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-593 [PubMed].
Osman S, Moissl C, Hosoya N, Briegel A, Mayilraj S, Satomi M, Venkateswaran K. Tetrasphaera remsis sp. nov., isolated from the Regenerative Enclosed Life Support Module Simulator (REMS) air system. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2749-2753. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65137-0 [PubMed].