Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5081

Name

Pasteuria Metchnikoff 1888 emend. Hirsch 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	Pasteuriaceae Laurent 1890 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Starr et al. 1983
species	Pasteuria aldrichii Giblin-Davis et al. 2011
species	Pasteuria nishizawae Sayre et al. 1992 emend. Noel et al. 2005
species	Pasteuria penetrans (ex Thorne 1940) Sayre and Starr 1986
species	Pasteuria thornei Starr and Sayre 1988
species	Pasteuria usgae Giblin-Davis et al. 2003

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Pasteuriaceae Laurent 1890 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Pasteuria Metchnikoff 1888 emend. Hirsch 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 Pasteuria Metchnikoff 1888 emend. Hirsch 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5081.


This information was last reviewed on September 16, 2011.

References

Sayre RM, Starr MP. Pasteuria penetrans (ex Thorne, 1940) nom. rev., comb. n., sp. n., a mycelial and endospore-forming bacterium parasitic in plant-parasitic nematodes. Proc Helm Soc Wash 1985; 52:149-165.
Metchnikoff E. Pasteuria ramosa un représentant des bactéries à division longitudinale. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1888; 2:165-170.
Giblin-Davis RM, Nong G, Preston JF, Williams DS, Center BJ, Brito JA, Dickson DW. ‘Candidatus Pasteuria aldrichii’, an obligate endoparasite of the bacterivorous nematode Bursilla. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2073-2080. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.021287-0 [PubMed].
Starr MP, Sayre RM. Pasteuria thornei sp. nov. and Pasteuria penetrans sensu stricto Emend., mycelial and endospore-forming bacteria parasitic respectively on plant-parasitic nematodes of the genera Pratylenchus and Meloidogyne. Ann Inst Pasteur Microbiol 1988; 139:11-31.
Sayre RM, Wergin WP, Schmidt JM, Starr MP. Pasteuria nishizawae sp. nov., a mycelial and endospore-forming bacterium parasitic on cyst nematodes of genera Heterodera and Globodera. Res Microbiol 1991; 142:551-564. [PubMed].
Giblin-Davis RM, Williams DS, Bekal S, Dickson DW, Brito JA, Becker JO, Preston JF. ‘Candidatus Pasteuria usgae’ sp. nov., an obligate endoparasite of the phytoparasitic nematode Belonolaimus longicaudatus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:197-200. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02292-0 [PubMed].