Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2868

Name

Moritella Urakawa et al. 1999

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	Moritellaceae Ivanova et al. 2004 emend. Hosoya et al. 2009

Members

species	Moritella marina (Baumann et al. 1984) Urakawa et al. 1999
species	Moritella abyssi Xu et al. 2003
species	Moritella dasanensis Kim et al. 2008
species	Moritella japonica Nogi et al. 1999
species	Moritella profunda Xu et al. 2003
species	Moritella viscosa (Lunder et al. 2000) Benediktsdóttir et al. 2000
species	Moritella yayanosii Nogi and Kato 1999
species	Moritella sp. None 2015

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 Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005
family Moritellaceae Ivanova et al. 2004 emend. Hosoya et al. 2009
genus Moritella Urakawa et al. 1999

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 Moritella Urakawa et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2868.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2868.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 25, 2010.

References

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Nogi Y, Kato C. Taxonomic studies of extremely barophilic bacteria isolated from the Mariana Trench and description of Moritella yayanosii sp. nov., a new barophilic bacterial isolate. Extremophiles 1999; 3:71-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s007920050101 [PubMed].
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Xu Y, Nogi Y, Kato C, Liang Z, Rüger HJ, De Kegel D, Glansdorff N. Moritella profunda sp. nov. and Moritella abyssi sp. nov., two psychropiezophilic organisms isolated from deep Atlantic sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:533-538. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02228-0 [PubMed].
Nogi Y, Kato C, Horikoshi K. Moritella japonica sp. nov., a novel barophilic bacterium isolated from a Japan Trench sediment. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1998; 44:289-295. [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015