Myxococcota

Citation

Formal styling

Myxococcota Waite et al., 2020 emend. Oren, Garrity, 2021

Effective publication

Waite et al., 2020

Emended in

Oren, Garrity, 2021

SeqCode status

Valid (ICNP)

Canonical URL

https://seqco.de/i:1721

Nomenclature

Rank

Phylum

Inferred stem

Myxococc-

Syllabication

My.xo.coc.co'ta

Etymology

N.L. masc. n. Myxococcus, type genus of the phylum; -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. pl. neut. n. Myxococcota, the Myxococcus phylum

Nomenclatural type

Myxococcus

Taxonomy

Description

Waite et al., 2020: The description of the phylum is based on the shared characteristics of the members of its constituent classes with validly published descriptions. The phylum represents a distinct monophyletic lineage as supported by concatenated protein and 16S rRNA gene trees. The phylum contains the classes Myxococcia and Polyangia.

Oren & Garrity, 2021: The properties of the taxon are as described by Waite et al., 2020. Type genus: Myxococcus Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980).

Classification

Bacteria » Myxococcota

Parent

Bacteria ncbigtdb

Children (5)

• “Bradymonadia” gtdb
• “Deltaporibacteria”
• “Kuafubacteria”
• Myxococcia ncbigtdb
• Polyangiia gtdb

Alternatively placed children (3)

• Haliangiales ncbi (preferred placement in Polyangiia)
• Nannocystales ncbi (preferred placement in Polyangiia)
• Polyangiales ncbi (preferred placement in Polyangiia)

Metadata

Outside links and data sources

• NCBI Taxonomy: 2818505
• GTDB Tree: p__Myxococcota
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Wikispecies: Myxococcota (see reference source)

Search sequences

• Seach in NCBI Nucleotide
• NCBI Genomes table

Local history

• This name was last modified 10 months ago
• Submission process status
• Quality checks before valid publication

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Curators

• Rodriguez-R, Luis M

Reported valid by

Rodriguez-R, Luis M almost 2 years ago