Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2382

Name

Legionella spiritensis Brenner et al. 1985

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

ATCC 35249^T (=Mt St Helens 9 =NCTC 11990)

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 spiritensis Brenner et al. 1985

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 spiritensis Brenner et al. 1985. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2382.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2382.xml

References

Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, Gorman GW, Wilkinson HW, Bibb WF, Hackel M, Tyndall RL, Campbell J, Feeley JC, Thacker WL, Skaliy P, Martin WT, Brake BJ, Fields BS, McEachern HV, Corcoran LK. Ten new species of Legionella. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1985; 35:50-59. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-35-1-50.