Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3097

Name

Escherichia fergusonii Farmer 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	Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 emend. Ørskov 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

CDC 0568-73^T (=ATCC 35469)

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 Enterobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Adeolu et al. 2016
family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 emend. Ørskov 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Escherichia fergusonii Farmer 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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.21868	ECD227
10.1601/ex.17012	B253
10.1601/ex.28075	ATCC BAA-1161 (=clonal group A =PUTI 026 =UMN026 =BEI NR-712)

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Escherichia fergusonii Farmer et al. 1985. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3097.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3097.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 12, 2016.

References

Farmer JJ, Fanning GR, Davis BR, O'Hara CM, Riddle C, Hickman-Brenner FW, Asbury MA, Lowery VA, Brenner DJ. Escherichia fergusonii and Enterobacter taylorae, two new species of Enterobacteriaceae isolated from clinical specimens. J Clin Microbiol 1985; 21:77-81. [PubMed].