Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2381

Name

Legionella shakespearei Verma et al. 1992

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

214^T (=CCUG 31228 A =DSM 23087 =CIP 103541 =ATCC 49655 =NCTC 12829)

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 shakespearei Verma et al. 1992

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 shakespearei Verma et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2381.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2381.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 22, 2010.

References

Verma UK, Brenner DJ, Thacker WL, Benson RF, Vesey G, Kurtz JB, Dennis PJ, Steigerwalt AG, Robinson JS, Moss CW. Legionella shakespearei sp. nov., isolated from cooling tower water. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:404-407. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-3-404 [PubMed].