Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2366

Name

Legionella longbeachae McKinney et al. 1982

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

Long Beach 4^T (=ATCC 33462)

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 longbeachae McKinney et al. 1982

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.20508
10.1601/ex.16918	D-4968
10.1601/ex.15904	NSW150

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Legionella longbeachae McKinney et al. 1982. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2366.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2366.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 20, 2011.

References

McKinney RM, Porschen RK, Edelstein PH, Bissett ML, Harris PP, Bondell SP, Steigerwalt AG, Weaver RE, Ein ME, Lindquist DS, Kops RS, Brenner DJ. Legionella longbeachae species nova, another etiologic agent of human pneumonia. Ann Intern Med 1981; 94:739-743. [PubMed].