Cystobacter

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Cystobacter is a genus in the phylum Myxococcota (Bacteria).[2]

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Cystobacter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Myxococcota
Class: Myxococcia
Order: Myxococcales
Family: Myxococcaceae
Genus: Cystobacter
Schroeter 1886[1]
Type species
Cystobacter fuscus
Schroeter 1886
Species

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Synonyms

Polyangium section "Fuscae" Jahn 1911

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Etymology

The genus name stems from Greek noun κύστις (kustis), meaning "bladder" and Neo-Latin masculine noun bacter "rod" consequently the Neo-Latin masculine noun Cystobacter means bladder-forming rod.[3]

Species

The genus contains 8 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[3]

  • C. armeniaca Reichenbach 2007 (L. fem. n. armeniaca, an apricot-tree, intended to mean apricot-colored.)[4]
  • C. badius Reichenbach 2007 (L. masc. adj. badius, chestnut brown.)[4]
  • C. ferrugineus (Krzemieniewska and Krzemieniewski 1927) McCurdy 1970 (L. masc. adj. ferrugineus, of the color of iron-rust, dark-red.)[1]
  • C. fuscus Schroeter 1886 (L. masc. adj. fuscus, dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny.)[1]
  • C. miniatus Reichenbach 2007 (L. masc. part. adj. miniatus, cinnabar-red.)[4]
  • C. velatus Reichenbach 2007 (L. part. adj. velatus, veiled, covered.)[4]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[3] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[5]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[6][7][8] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226[9][10][11]

Melittangium boletus Jahn 1924

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Cystobacter armeniaca Reichenbach 2007

Cystobacter miniatus Reichenbach 2007

Cystobacter

C. velatus Reichenbach 2007

C. fuscus Schroeter 1886

C. badius Reichenbach 2007

C. ferrugineus (Krzemieniewska & Krzemieniewski 1927) McCurdy 1970

Melittangium

"Archangium primigenium" (Quehl 1906) Jahn 1924 nom. nud.

Melittangium boletus

Cystobacter

C. ferrugineus

C. fuscus

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