Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7759

Name

Pirellula (Schlesner and Hirsch 1984) Schlesner and Hirsch 1987 emend. Schlesner et al. 2004

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	Pirellulaceae Dedysh et al. 2020

Members

species	Pirellula staleyi (Schlesner and Hirsch 1984) Schlesner and Hirsch 1987 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Pirellula marina (Schlesner 1987) Schlesner and Hirsch 1987

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 Pirellulales Dedysh et al. 2020
family Pirellulaceae Dedysh et al. 2020
genus Pirellula (Schlesner and Hirsch 1984) Schlesner and Hirsch 1987 emend. Schlesner et al. 2004

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 Pirellula (Schlesner and Hirsch 1984) Schlesner and Hirsch 1987 emend. Schlesner et al. 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7759.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7759.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 12, 2020.

References

Schlesner H, Hirsch P. Rejection of the genus name Pirella for pear-shaped budding bacteria and proposal to create the genus Pirellula gen. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1987; 37:441-441. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-37-4-441.
Schlesner H, Rensmann C, Tindall BJ, Gade D, Rabus R, Pfeiffer S, Hirsch P. Taxonomic heterogeneity within the Planctomycetales as derived by DNA-DNA hybridization, description of Rhodopirellula baltica gen. nov., sp. nov., transfer of Pirellula marina to the genus Blastopirellula gen. nov. as Blastopirellula marina comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Pirellula. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1567-1580. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63113-0 [PubMed].
Dedysh SN, Kulichevskaya IS, Beletsky AV, Ivanova AA, Rijpstra WIC, Damsté JSS, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Lacipirellula parvula gen. nov., sp. nov., representing a lineage of planctomycetes widespread in low-oxygen habitats, description of the family Lacipirellulaceae fam. nov. and proposal of the orders Pirellulales ord. nov., Gemmatales ord. nov. and Isosphaerales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126050-126050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2019.126050 [PubMed].