Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25524

Name

Polymorphobacter Fukuda et al. 2014 emend. Jia et al. 2015

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	Sphingosinicellaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Polymorphobacter multimanifer Fukuda et al. 2014 emend. Tahon et al. 2021
species	Polymorphobacter arshaanensis Phurbu et al. 2020
species	Polymorphobacter fuscus Jia et al. 2015 emend. Tahon et al. 2021
species	Polymorphobacter glacialis Xing 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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Sphingomonadales Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Sphingosinicellaceae Hördt et al. 2020
genus Polymorphobacter Fukuda et al. 2014 emend. Jia 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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Polymorphobacter Fukuda et al. 2014 emend. Jia et al. 2015. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25524.


This information was last reviewed on March 9, 2020.

References

Fukuda W, Chino Y, Araki S, Kondo Y, Imanaka H, Kanai T, Atomi H, Imanaka T. Polymorphobacter multimanifer gen. nov., sp. nov., a polymorphic bacterium isolated from antarctic white rock. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2034-2040. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.050005-0 [PubMed].
Jia L, Feng X, Zheng Z, Han L, Hou X, Lu Z, Lv J. Polymorphobacter fuscus sp. nov., isolated from permafrost soil, and emended description of the genus Polymorphobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3920-3925. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000514 [PubMed].
Phurbu D, Liu Z-X, Liu H-C, Lhamo Y, Yangzom P, Li A-H, Zhou Y-G. Polymorphobacter arshaanensis sp. nov., containing the photosynthetic gene pufML, isolated from a volcanic lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1093-1098. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003880 [PubMed].
Xing T, Liu Y, Xu B, Wang N, Liu K, Shen L, Gu Z, Guo B, Liu H, Zhou Y. Polymorphobacter glacialis sp. nov., isolated from ice core，China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:617-620. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001672 [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].