Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.2337
Name
 Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
Members
Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Brenner et al. 1988
Benson et al. 1991
Gorman et al. 1985
Shimada et al. 2022
Lo Presti et al. 2001
Wilkinson et al. 1988
(sic) Brenner et al. 1980 pro synon. Fluoribacter bozemanae Garrity et al. 1980
Wilkinson et al. 1989
Park et al. 2003
Pearce et al. 2012
Brenner et al. 1985
Thacker et al. 1989
La Scola et al. 2004
Lück et al. 2010
Adeleke et al. 2001
Brenner et al. 1980
Brenner et al. 1985
Thacker et al. 1991
Adeleke et al. 2001
Herwaldt et al. 1984
Dennis et al. 1993
Morris et al. 1980
Bornstein et al. 1991
Lo Presti et al. 2001
Brenner et al. 1985
Kuroki et al. 2007
Bercovier et al. 1986
Brenner et al. 1985
Park et al. 2004
Cherry et al. 1982
Thacker et al. 1994
Dennis et al. 1993
McKinney et al. 1982
(Drozanski 1991) Hookey et al. 1996
Brenner et al. 1985
Campocasso et al. 2012
Hébert et al. 1980
Wilkinson et al. 1989
Yang et al. 2012
Dennis et al. 1993
Rizzardi et al. 2015
Orrison et al. 1983
Brenner et al. 1985
Pasculle et al. 1980 pro synon. Legionella micdadei Hébert et al. 1980
Wu et al. 2019
Dennis et al. 1993
Benson et al. 1990
Adeleke et al. 2001
Brenner et al. 1985
Campbell et al. 1984
Brenner et al. 1985
Bajrai et al. 2016
Li et al. 2021
Verma et al. 1992
Brenner et al. 1985
Edelstein et al. 2012
Brenner et al. 1985
Lo Presti et al. 1999
Ishizaki et al. 2016
Thacker et al. 1990
Campocasso et al. 2012
Edelstein et al. 1983
Benson et al. 1996
Dennis et al. 1993
Kuroki et al. 2007
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus 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
  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 genus Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2337.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on December 22, 2021.

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