Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8430

Name

Gemmatimonas Zhang et al. 2003 emend. Zeng et al. 2015

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	Gemmatimonadaceae Zhang et al. 2003

Members

species	Gemmatimonas aurantiaca Zhang et al. 2003 emend. García-López et al. 2019
species	Gemmatimonas phototrophica Zeng et al. 2017

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 Gemmatimonadetes (sic) Zhang et al. 2021 non Gemmatimonadetes Zhang et al. 2003
class Gemmatimonadetes Zhang et al. 2003 non Gemmatimonadetes Zhang et al. 2021
order Gemmatimonadales Zhang et al. 2003
family Gemmatimonadaceae Zhang et al. 2003
genus Gemmatimonas Zhang et al. 2003 emend. Zeng et al. 2015

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 Gemmatimonas Zhang et al. 2003 emend. Zeng et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8430.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8430.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 25, 2017.

References

Zeng Y, Selyanin V, Lukeš M, Dean J, Kaftan D, Feng F, Koblížek M. Characterization of the microaerophilic, bacteriochlorophyll a-containing bacterium Gemmatimonas phototrophica sp. nov., and emended descriptions of the genus Gemmatimonas and Gemmatimonas aurantiaca. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2410-2419. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000272 [PubMed].
Zhang H, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Hugenholtz P, Kim H, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1155-1163. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02520-0 [PubMed].