Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2355

Name

Legionella feeleii Herwaldt et al. 1984

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	Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021

Type Strain

representative organism

WO-44C^T (=ATCC 35072)

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Legionellales Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
family Legionellaceae Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
genus Legionella Brenner et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
species Legionella feeleii Herwaldt et al. 1984

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 species Legionella feeleii Herwaldt et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2355.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2355.xml

References

Herwaldt LA, Gorman GW, McGrath T, Toma S, Brake B, Hightower AW, Jones J, Reingold AL, Boxer PA, Tang PW. A new Legionella species, Legionella feeleii species nova, causes Pontiac fever in an automobile plant. Ann Intern Med 1984; 100:333-338. [PubMed].