Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1559

Name

Prosthecomicrobium Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Yee et al. 2010

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Prosthecomicrobium pneumaticum Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Prosthecomicrobium consociatum Vasil'eva et al. 2009
species	Prosthecomicrobium enhydrum Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Prosthecomicrobium hirschii Staley 1984 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Prosthecomicrobium litoralum Bauld et al. 1983
species	Prosthecomicrobium mishustinii Vasil'eva et al. 2009

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Prosthecomicrobium Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Yee et al. 2010

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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Prosthecomicrobium Staley 1968 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Yee et al. 2010. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1559.


This information was last reviewed on June 26, 2009.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VIII. Hyphomicrobiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 476.
Vasil'eva LV, Semenov AM, Giniyatullina AI. A new species of soil bacteria of the genus Prosthecomicrobium. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1991; 60:350-359.
Staley JT. Prosthecomicrobium hirschii, a new species in a redefined genus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:304-308. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-3-304.
Bauld J, Bigford R, Staley JT. Prosthecomicrobium litoralum, a new species from marine habitats. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:613-617. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-33-3-613.
Staley JT. Prosthecomicrobium and Ancalomicrobium: new prosthecate freshwater bacteria. J Bacteriol 1968; 95:1921-1942. [PubMed].