Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.11520

Name

Brucella pinnipedialis Foster et al. 2007

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Brucella Meyer and Shaw 1920 emend. Brinley-Morgan and McCullough 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

BCCN 94-73^T (=NCTC 12890 =B2/94)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Brucellaceae Breed et al. 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Brucella Meyer and Shaw 1920 emend. Brinley-Morgan and McCullough 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Brucella pinnipedialis Foster et al. 2007

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.15380	M163/99/10
10.1601/ex.15381	M292/94/1

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Brucella pinnipedialis Foster et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.11520.

Source File

10.1601/tx.11520.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 19, 2010.

References

Foster G, Osterman BS, Godfroid J, Jacques I, Cloeckaert A. Brucella ceti sp. nov. and Brucella pinnipedialis sp. nov. for Brucella strains with cetaceans and seals as their preferred hosts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2688-2693. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65269-0 [PubMed].