Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9472

Name

Alkaliflexus Zhilina 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	Marinilabiliaceae Ludwig et al. 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019

Members

species	Alkaliflexus imshenetskii Zhilina et al. 2005 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016

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 Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Bacteroidia corrig. Krieg 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
order Bacteroidales Krieg 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Marinilabiliaceae Ludwig et al. 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
genus Alkaliflexus Zhilina 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 Alkaliflexus Zhilina et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9472.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9472.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 20, 2017.

References

Zhilina TN, Appel R, Probian C, Brossa EL, Harder J, Widdel F, Zavarzin GA. Alkaliflexus imshenetskii gen. nov. sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic gliding carbohydrate-fermenting bacterium with propionate formation from a soda lake. Arch Microbiol 2004; 182:244-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-004-0722-0 [PubMed].
Detkova EN, Zaichikova MV, Kevbrin VV. Physiological and Biochemical Properties of the Alkaliphilic Anaerobic Hydrolytic Bacterium Alkaliflexus imshenetskii. Microbiology (English translation of Mikrobiologiya) 2009; 78:273-279. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261709030035.