Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.2336
Name
Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
Taxonomic Rank
family
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
Members
Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
Garrity et al. 1980
Drozanski 1991
Garrity et al. 1980
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.

  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
  Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
  Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021

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 family Legionellaceae Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2336.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on September 14, 2021.

References


  1. Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order VI. Legionellales ord. 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. 210.
  2. Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, McDade JE. Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova. Ann Intern Med 1979; 90:656-658. [PubMed].
  3. Hookey JV, Saunders NA, Fry NK, Birtles RJ, Harrison TG. Phylogeny of Legionellaceae based on small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequences and proposal of Legionella lytica comb. nov. for Legionella-like amoebal pathogens. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:526-531. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-2-526.
  4. Garrity GM, Brown A, Vickers RM. Tatlockia and Fluoribacter: Two new genera of organisms resembling Legionella pneumophila. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:609-614. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-4-609.