Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32348

Name

Midichloriaceae Montagna et al. 2013

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Members

genus	Midichloria Sassera et al. 2006
genus	Aquirickettsia corrig. Klinges et al. 2019
genus	Bandiella Senra et al. 2016
genus	Euplotella Boscaro et al. 2019
genus	Fokinia Szokoli et al. 2016 emend. Szokoli et al. 2016
genus	Grelliella corrig. Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2019
genus	Jidaibacter Schulz et al. 2016

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
family Midichloriaceae Montagna et al. 2013

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 Midichloriaceae Montagna et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32348.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32348.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

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