Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7757

Name

Isosphaera Giovannoni 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	Isosphaeraceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2016

Members

species	Isosphaera pallida (ex Woronichin 1927) Giovannoni et al. 1995

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 Planctomycetes (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021
class Planctomycetia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Ward 2020
order Isosphaerales Dedysh et al. 2020
family Isosphaeraceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2016
genus Isosphaera Giovannoni 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 Isosphaera Giovannoni et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7757.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7757.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 11, 2009.

References

Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Suzina NE, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Dedysh SN. Paludisphaera borealis gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrolytic planctomycete from northern wetlands, and proposal of Isosphaeraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:837-844. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000799 [PubMed].
Ludwig W, Euzeby J, Whitman WB. Taxonomic outlines of the phyla Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 21-24.
Giovannoni SJ, Schabtach E, Castenholz RW. Isosphaera pallida, gen. and comb. nov., a gliding, budding eubacterium from hot springs. Arch Microbiol 1987; 147:276-284. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00463488.