Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.30464

Name

Lacunisphaera Rast et al. 2017

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	Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018

Members

species	Lacunisphaera anatis Rast et al. 2017
species	Lacunisphaera limnophila Rast et al. 2017
species	Lacunisphaera parvula Rast et al. 2017

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 Verrucomicrobia (sic) Hedlund 2021
class Opitutae Choo et al. 2007
order Opitutales Choo et al. 2007
family Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018
genus Lacunisphaera Rast et al. 2017

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 Lacunisphaera Rast et al. 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.30464.

Source File

10.1601/tx.30464.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 27, 2017.

References

Rast P, Glöckner I, Boedeker C, Jeske O, Wiegand S, Reinhardt R, Schumann P, Rohde M, Spring S, Glöckner FO, Jogler C, Jogler M. Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4. Front. Microbio. 2017; 8:. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00202 [PubMed].