Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9163

Name

Sarcobium Drozanski 1991

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	Legionellaceae Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021

Members

species	Sarcobium lyticum Drozanski 1991

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Legionellales Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
family Legionellaceae Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
genus Sarcobium Drozanski 1991

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 Sarcobium Drozanski 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9163.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9163.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 14, 2021.

References

Drozanski WJ. Sarcobium lyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligate intracellular bacterial parasite of small free-living amoebae. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:82-87. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-1-82.
Hookey JV, Saunders NA, Fry NK, Birtles RJ, Harrison TG. Phylogeny of Legionellaceae based on small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequences and proposal of Legionella lytica comb. nov. for Legionella-like amoebal pathogens. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:526-531. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-2-526.