Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7785

Name

Simkaniaceae Everett et al. 1999

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	Parachlamydiales Gupta et al. 2016

Members

genus	Simkania Everett et al. 1999
genus	Fritschea Everett et al. 2005
genus	Neptunichlamydia corrig. Pizzetti et al. 2016
genus	Syngnamidia Fehr et al. 2013

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 Chlamydiota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Chlamydiia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Horn 2016 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
order Parachlamydiales Gupta et al. 2016
family Simkaniaceae Everett 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 family Simkaniaceae Everett et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7785.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7785.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 17, 2019.

References

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