Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.755

Name

Family 4.2 McNeill et al. 2006

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	Subsection IV (Borzì 1914) Rippka et al. 2001

Members

genus	Calothrix McNeill et al. 2006
genus	Phyllonema Alvarenga et al. 2016
genus	Rivularia McNeill et al. 2006
genus	Tolypothrix McNeill et al. 2006

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 Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006
class Cyanobacteria (Stanier 1973) Woese et al. 2006 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985
order Subsection IV (Borzì 1914) Rippka et al. 2001
family Family 4.2 McNeill et al. 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 family Family 4.2 McNeill et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.755.

Source File

10.1601/tx.755.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 26, 2017.

References

Garrity GM, Lilburn TG, Cole JR, Harrison SH, Euzéby J, Tindall BJ. Taxonomic Outline of the Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7 March 6, 2007. Part 2 – The Bacteria, Phyla “Aquficae”, “Thermotogae”, “Thermodesulfobacteria”, Deinococcus-Thermus, “Chrysiogenetes”, “Chloroflexi”, “Thermomicrobia”, “Nitrospira”, “Deferrebacteres”, “Cyanobacteria”, and “Chlorobi”. Taxonomic Outline 2007; .
Henson BJ, Hesselbrock SM, Watson LE, Barnum S.R.. Molecular phylogeny of the heterocystous cyanobacteria (subsections IV and V) based on nifD. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:493-497. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02821-0 [PubMed].
Alvarenga DO, Rigonato J, Branco LH, Melo IS, Fiore MF. Phyllonema aviceniicola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Foliisarcina bertiogensis gen. nov., sp. nov., epiphyllic cyanobacteria associated with Avicennia schaueriana leaves. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:689-700. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000774 [PubMed].
Rippka R, Castenholz RW, Herdman M. Subsection IV. (Formerly Nostocales Castenholz 1989b sensu Rippka, Deruelles, Waterbury, Herdman and Stanier 1979). In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 562-589.