Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2312

Name

Piscirickettsia Fryer et al. 1992

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	Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Members

species	Piscirickettsia salmonis Fryer et al. 1992

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 Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005
family Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Piscirickettsia Fryer et al. 1992

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 Piscirickettsia Fryer et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2312.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2312.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 28, 2009.

References

Fryer JL, Lannan CN, Giovannoni SJ, Wood ND. Piscirickettsia salmonis gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of an epizootic disease in salmonid fishes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:120-126. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-1-120 [PubMed].
Fryer JL, Lannan CN. Family II. Piscirickettsiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 180.