Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1984

Name

Vitreoscilla Pringsheim 1949 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Neisseriaceae Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Chen et al. 2021

Members

species	Vitreoscilla beggiatoides Pringsheim 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Strohl et al. 1986
species	Vitreoscilla filiformis (ex Pringsheim 1951) Strohl et al. 1986
species	Vitreoscilla stercoraria Pringsheim 1951 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Strohl et al. 1986

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Neisseriales Tønjum 2006 emend. Chen et al. 2021
family Neisseriaceae Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Chen et al. 2021
genus Vitreoscilla Pringsheim 1949 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Vitreoscilla Pringsheim 1949 emend. Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1984.


This information was last reviewed on April 15, 2009.

References

Adeolu M, Gupta RS. Phylogenomics and molecular signatures for the order Neisseriales: proposal for division of the order Neisseriales into the emended family Neisseriaceae and Chromobacteriaceae fam. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-9920-6 [PubMed].
Strohl WR, Schmidt TM, Lawry NH, Mezzino MJ, Larkin JM. Characterization of Vitreoscilla beggiatoides and Vitreoscilla filiformis sp. nov., nom. rev., and comparison with Vitreoscilla stercoraria and Beggiatoa alba. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1986; 36:302-313. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-36-2-302.
Leadbetter ER. Genus Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842, 56; Nom. cons. Opin. 13, Jud. Comm. 1954, 152. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 113-114.
Pringsheim EG. The relationship between bacteria and Myxophyceae. Bacteriol Rev 1949; 13:47-98. [PubMed].
Pringsheim EG. The Vitreoscillaceae; a family of colourless, gliding, filamentous organisms. J Gen Microbiol 1951; 5:124-149. https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-5-1-124 [PubMed].