Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8408

Name

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

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	Opitutales Choo et al. 2007

Members

genus	Opitutus Chin et al. 2001 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018
genus	Alterococcus Shieh and Jean 1999
genus	Cephaloticoccus Lin et al. 2017
genus	Didemnitutus (sic) Lopera et al. 2017
genus	Didymococcus Wertz et al. 2017 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018
genus	Diplosphaera Wertz et al. 2012
genus	Ereboglobus Tegtmeier et al. 2018
genus	Geminisphaera Wertz et al. 2018
genus	Lacunisphaera Rast et al. 2017
genus	Nibricoccus Baek et al. 2019
genus	Oleiharenicola Rochman et al. 2018
genus	Rariglobus Pitt et al. 2020

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 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

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 Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8408.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8408.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

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