Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14669

Names

Blochmannia (sic) Sauer et al. 2000, Blochmanniella corrig. Sauer et al. 2000

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	Blochmannia floridanus (sic) Sauer et al. 2000
species	Blochmannia herculeanus (sic) Sauer et al. 2000
species	Blochmannia laevigatus Ramalho et al. 2017
species	Blochmannia rufipes (sic) Sauer et al. 2000
species	Blochmannia ulcerosus Ramalho et al. 2017
species	Blochmannia vafer (sic) Williams and Wernegreen 2010
species	Blochmanniella chromaiodes corrig. Williams and Wernegreen 2013
species	Blochmanniella pennsylvanica corrig. Degnan et al. 2005

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 Blochmannia (sic) Sauer et al. 2000

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 Blochmannia (sic) Sauer et al. 2000 and Blochmanniella corrig. Sauer et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14669.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14669.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

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