Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8008

Name

Megamonas Shah and Collins 1983

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	Selenomonadaceae Campbell et al. 2015

Members

species	Megamonas hypermegale corrig. (Harrison and Hansen 1963) Shah and Collins 1983
species	Megamonas funiformis Sakon et al. 2008
species	Megamonas rupellensis Chevrot et al. 2008

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Negativicutes Marchandin et al. 2010
order Selenomonadales Marchandin et al. 2010 emend. Campbell et al. 2015
family Selenomonadaceae Campbell et al. 2015
genus Megamonas Shah and Collins 1983

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 Megamonas Shah and Collins 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8008.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8008.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 17, 2009.

References

Sakon H, Nagai F, Morotomi M, Tanaka R. Sutterella parvirubra sp. nov. and Megamonas funiformis sp. nov., isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:970-975. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65456-0 [PubMed].
Shah HN, Collins MD. Reclassification of Bacteroides hypermegas (Harrison and Hansen) in a new genus Megamonas, as Megamonas hypermegas comb. nov. Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg A 1982; 3:394-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0721-9571(82)80020-3.
Chevrot R, Carlotti A, Sopena V, Marchand P, Rosenfeld E. Megamonas rupellensis sp. nov., an anaerobe isolated from the caecum of a duck. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2921-2924. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.2008/001297-0 [PubMed].
Campbell C, Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Genome-based taxonomic framework for the class Negativicutes: division of the class Negativicutes into the orders Selenomonadales emend., Acidaminococcales ord. nov. and Veillonellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3203-3215. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000347 [PubMed].