Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8537

Name

Chitinibacter Chern 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	Chitinibacteraceae Chen et al. 2022

Members

species	Chitinibacter tainanensis Chern et al. 2004
species	Chitinibacter alvei Yang et al. 2010
species	Chitinibacter bivalviorum Choi et al. 2021
species	Chitinibacter fontanus Sheu et al. 2016
species	Chitinibacter suncheonensis Kim et al. 2012

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Neisseriales Tønjum 2006 emend. Chen et al. 2021
family Chitinibacteraceae Chen et al. 2022
genus Chitinibacter Chern 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 Chitinibacter Chern et al. 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8537.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8537.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 5, 2021.

References

Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-9920-6 [PubMed].
Sheu S-Y, Li Y-S, Young C-C, Chen W-M. Chitinibacter fontanus sp. nov., isolated from a spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4262-4268. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001345 [PubMed].
Yang C-S, Sheu S-Y, Young C-C, Arun AB, Cheng C-Y, Chen W-M. Chitinibacter alvei sp. nov., isolated from stream water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1760-1764. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.016170-0 [PubMed].
Choi J-W, Lee J-Y, Hyun D-W, Lee J-Y, Kim PS, Han JE, Jeong Y-S, Lee S-Y, Sung H, Tak EJ, Kim HS, Bae J-W. Chitinibacter bivalviorum sp. nov., isolated from the gut of the freshwater mussel Anodonta arcaeformis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004909 [PubMed].
Chern LL, Stackebrandt E, Lee SF, Lee FL, Chen JK, Fu HM. Chitinibacter tainanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitin-degrading aerobe from soil in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1387-1391. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02834-0 [PubMed].
Kim SK, Kim YH, Jeong YS, Na HB, Kim J, Baik KS, Yun HD, Lee J-K, Kim H. Chitinibacter suncheonensis sp. nov., a chitinolytic bacterium from a mud flat in Suncheon Bay. J Microbiol 2012; 50:1058-1062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-012-2333-9 [PubMed].
Chen S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures support division of the order Neisseriales into emended families Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae and three new families Aquaspirillaceae fam. nov., Chitinibacteraceae fam. nov., and Leeiaceae fam. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126251-126251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2021.126251 [PubMed].