Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8362

Name

Fusobacterium periodonticum Slots et al. 1984

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Fusobacterium Knorr 1922 emend. Moore and Holdeman 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

EK1-15^T (=ATCC 33693)

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Fusobacteriota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Fusobacteria (sic) Staley and Whitman 2012 non Fusobacteria Garrity and Holt 2021
order Fusobacteriales Staley and Whitman 2012
family Fusobacteriaceae Staley and Whitman 2012 emend. Gupta and Sethi 2014
genus Fusobacterium Knorr 1922 emend. Moore and Holdeman 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Fusobacterium periodonticum Slots et al. 1984

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.17408	D10 (=BEI HM-41)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Fusobacterium periodonticum Slots et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8362.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8362.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 19, 2010.

References

Slots J, Potts TV, Mashimo PA. Fusobacterium periodonticum, a new species from the human oral cavity. J Dent Res 1983; 62:960-963. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220345830620090901 [PubMed].