Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3022

Name

Grimontia Thompson et al. 2003 emend. Choi et al. 2012

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	Vibrionaceae Véron 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Grimontia hollisae (Hickman et al. 1982) Thompson et al. 2003
species	Grimontia celer Pujalte et al. 2016
species	Grimontia marina Choi et al. 2013
species	Grimontia sedimenti Mahmoud et al. 2021

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Vibrionales Garrity and Holt 2001
family Vibrionaceae Véron 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Grimontia Thompson et al. 2003 emend. Choi et al. 2012

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 and cite NamesforLife.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Grimontia Thompson et al. 2003 emend. Choi et al. 2012. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3022.


This information was last reviewed on April 8, 2021.

References

Choi A, Kim K-M, Kang I, Youn S-H, Suh Y-S, Lee Y, Cho J-C. Grimontia marina sp. nov., a Marine Bacterium Isolated from the Yellow Sea. J Microbiol 2012; 50:170-174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-012-1615-6 [PubMed].
Mahmoud H, Jose L, Eapen S. Grimontia sedimenti sp. nov., isolated from benthic sediments near coral reefs south of Kuwait. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004720 [PubMed].
Thompson FL, Hoste B, Vandemeulebroecke K, Swings J. Reclassification of Vibrio hollisae as Grimontia hollisae gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1615-1617. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02660-0 [PubMed].
Pujalte MJ, Lucena T, Rodrigo-Torres L, La Mura A, Ruvira MA, Arahal DR. Grimontia celer sp. nov., from Mediterranean sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2906-2909. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001119 [PubMed].