Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.22787
Name
 Morotomi et al. 2012
Taxonomic Rank
family
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
Members
Morotomi et al. 2012
Liu et al. 2022
Liu et al. 2022
Liu et al. 2022
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
  Rainey 2010
  Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
  Morotomi et al. 2012

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 family Christensenellaceae Morotomi et al. 2012. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.22787.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on February 21, 2022.

References

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