Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8394

Name

Cetobacterium Foster et al. 1996 emend. Finegold et al. 2003

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	Fusobacteriaceae Staley and Whitman 2012 emend. Gupta and Sethi 2014

Members

species	Cetobacterium ceti Foster et al. 1996
species	Cetobacterium somerae Finegold et al. 2003

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 Fusobacteriota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Fusobacteria (sic) Staley and Whitman 2012 non Fusobacteria Garrity and Holt 2021
order Fusobacteriales Staley and Whitman 2012
family Fusobacteriaceae Staley and Whitman 2012 emend. Gupta and Sethi 2014
genus Cetobacterium Foster et al. 1996 emend. Finegold et al. 2003

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 Cetobacterium Foster et al. 1996 emend. Finegold et al. 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8394.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8394.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 28, 2009.

References

Foster G, Ross HM, Naylor RD, Collins MD, Pascual Ramos CP, Fernandez Garayzabal F, Reid RJ. Cetobacterium ceti gen. nov., sp. nov., a new gram-negative obligate anaerobe from sea mammals. Lett Appl Microbiol 1995; 21:202-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-765X.1995.tb01041.x [PubMed].
Finegold SM, Vaisanen ML, Molitoris DR, Tomzynski TJ, Song Y, Liu C, Collins MD, Lawson PA. Cetobacterium somerae sp. nov. from human feces and emended description of the genus Cetobacterium. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:177-181. https://doi.org/10.1078/072320203322346010 [PubMed].
Ludwig W, Euzeby J, Whitman WB. Taxonomic outlines of the phyla Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 21-24.