Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2369

Name

Legionella micdadei Hébert et al. 1980

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

TATLOCK^T (=ATCC 33218)

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 micdadei Hébert et al. 1980

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.16919

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Legionella micdadei Hébert et al. 1980. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2369.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2369.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 3, 2021.

References

Hébert GA, Steigerwalt AG, Brenner DJ. Legionella micdadei species nova: classification of a third species of Legionella associated with human pneumonia. Curr Microbiol 1980; 3:225-257. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02601800.