Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9463

Name

Mucispirillum Robertson et al. 2005

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	Mucispirillaceae Spring et al. 2022

Members

species	Mucispirillum schaedleri Robertson et al. 2005

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 Deferribacteres (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 non Deferribacteres Huber and Stetter 2002
class Deferribacteres Huber and Stetter 2002 non Deferribacteres Garrity and Holt 2021
order Deferribacterales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Mucispirillaceae Spring et al. 2022
genus Mucispirillum Robertson et al. 2005

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 Mucispirillum Robertson et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9463.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9463.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 6, 2009.

References

Spring S, Rohde M, Bunk B, Spröer C, Will SE, Neumann-Schaal M. New insights into the energy metabolism and taxonomy of Deferribacteres revealed by the characterization of a new isolate from a hypersaline microbial mat. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:2543-2575. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15999 [PubMed].
Robertson BR, O'Rourke JL, Neilan BA, Vandamme P, On SL, Fox JG, Lee A. Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp. nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1199-1204. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63472-0 [PubMed].