Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.13074

Name

Cronobacter Iversen et al. 2008 emend. Brady et al. 2013

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Cronobacter sakazakii (Farmer et al. 1980) Iversen et al. 2008
species	Cronobacter colletis Masood et al. 2014
species	Cronobacter condimenti Joseph et al. 2012
species	Cronobacter dublinensis Iversen et al. 2008
species	Cronobacter helveticus (Stephan et al. 2007) Brady et al. 2013
species	Cronobacter malonaticus Iversen et al. 2008
species	Cronobacter muytjensii Iversen et al. 2008
species	Cronobacter pulveris (Stephan et al. 2008) Brady et al. 2013
species	Cronobacter turicensis Iversen et al. 2008
species	Cronobacter universalis Joseph et al. 2012
species	Cronobacter zurichensis (Stephan et al. 2007) Brady et al. 2013

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 Enterobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Adeolu et al. 2016
family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Cronobacter Iversen et al. 2008 emend. Brady et al. 2013

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.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Cronobacter Iversen et al. 2008 emend. Brady et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.13074.

Source File

10.1601/tx.13074.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 18, 2019.

References

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