Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1381

Name

Brucella melitensis (Hughes 1893) Meyer and Shaw 1920 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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

16M^T (=BCCN R1 =ATCC 23456)

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 melitensis (Hughes 1893) Meyer and Shaw 1920 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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.15376	2308
10.1601/ex.15377	BCCN V4a (=Rev.1)
10.1601/ex.15378	BCCN R2 (=ATCC 23457 =63/9)
10.1601/ex.15379	ATCC 23458 (=BCCN R3 =Ether)
10.1601/ex.18309	G5013
10.1601/ex.18310	G6191
10.1601/ex.18311	H0866
10.1601/ex.18312	H0877
10.1601/ex.18313	63/143
10.1601/ex.18314	63/149
10.1601/ex.18315	63/33
10.1601/ex.18316	63/43
10.1601/ex.18317	63/61
10.1601/ex.18318	65/112
10.1601/ex.18319	65/16
10.1601/ex.18320	65/32
10.1601/ex.18321	65/56
10.1601/ex.18322	65/57
10.1601/ex.18323	65/61
10.1601/ex.18324	80/1
10.1601/ex.18325	80/4
10.1601/ex.18326	85/20
10.1601/ex.18327	90/1
10.1601/ex.18328	F1/01
10.1601/ex.18329	F3/05-371
10.1601/ex.18331	F3/99-548
10.1601/ex.18330	F3/05-372
10.1601/ex.18332	R36/03-60
10.1601/ex.18333	G9248
10.1601/ex.18334	G9319
10.1601/ex.18335	G9481
10.1601/ex.18336	K26
10.1601/ex.18534	M5-90
10.1601/ex.18340	H1992
10.1601/ex.18339	G8755
10.1601/ex.18338	G6605
10.1601/ex.18337	E8127
10.1601/ex.21557	M28

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Brucella melitensis (Hughes 1893) Meyer and Shaw 1920 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1381.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1381.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 25, 2020.

References

Meyer KF, Shaw EB. A comparison of the morphologic, cultural and biochemical characteristics of B. abortus and B. melitensis from cattle. Studies on the genus Brucella nov. gen. J Infect Dis 1920; 27:173-184.