Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.31937

Name

Diplosphaera Wertz et al. 2012

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	Diplosphaera colitermitum Wertz et al. 2012

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 Diplosphaera Wertz 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 genus Diplosphaera Wertz et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.31937.

Source File

10.1601/tx.31937.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 11, 2018.

References

Wertz JT, Kim E, Breznak JA, Schmidt TM, Rodrigues JLM. Genomic and physiological characterization of the Verrucomicrobia isolate Diplosphaera colitermitum gen. nov., sp. nov., reveals microaerophily and nitrogen fixation genes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 78:1544-55. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.06466-11 [PubMed].