Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7909

Names

Fibrobacteres (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Abdul Rahman et al. 2015 non Fibrobacteres Spain et al. 2012, Fibrobacterota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Abdul Rahman et al. 2015

Taxonomic Rank

phylum

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
domain	Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990

Members

class	Chitinispirillia Sorokin et al. 2016
class	Chitinivibrionia Sorokin et al. 2014
class	Fibrobacteres (sic) Spain et al. 2012 non Fibrobacteres Garrity and Holt 2021
class	Incertae sedis 669 Abdul Rahman et al. 2015

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this phylum within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Fibrobacteres (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Abdul Rahman et al. 2015 non Fibrobacteres Spain et al. 2012

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 phylum Fibrobacteres (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Abdul Rahman et al. 2015 non Fibrobacteres Spain et al. 2012 and Fibrobacterota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Abdul Rahman et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7909.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7909.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

References

Abdul Rahman N, Parks DH, Vanwonterghem I, Morrison M, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. A Phylogenomic Analysis of the Bacterial Phylum Fibrobacteres. Front. Microbio. 2015; 6:1469-1469. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01469 [PubMed].
Sorokin DY, Gumerov VM, Rakitin AL, Beletsky AV, Damsté JSS, Muyzer G, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Genome analysis of Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely haloalkaliphilic anaerobic chitinolytic bacterium from the candidate phylum Termite Group 3. Environ Microbiol 2014; 16:1549-1565. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12284 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Holt JG. Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 155-166.
Sorokin DY, Rakitin AL, Gumerov VM, Beletsky AV, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Phenotypic and Genomic Properties of Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., A Haloalkaliphilic Anaerobic Chitinolytic Bacterium Representing a Novel Class in the Phylum Fibrobacteres. Front. Microbio. 2016; 7:. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00407 [PubMed].
Spain AM, Forsberg CW, Krumholz LR. Class I. Fibrobacteria class. nov. 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. 739.