Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3130

Name

Citrobacter Werkman and Gillen 1932 emend. Sakazaki 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Citrobacter freundii (Braak 1928) Werkman and Gillen 1932 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Citrobacter amalonaticus (Young et al. 1971) Farmer 1982
species	Citrobacter bitternis Ko et al. 2015
species	Citrobacter braakii Brenner et al. 1993
species	Citrobacter cronae Oberhettinger et al. 2020
species	Citrobacter diversus (Burkey 1928) Werkman and Gillen 1932 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Citrobacter europaeus Ribeiro et al. 2017
species	Citrobacter farmeri Brenner et al. 1993
species	Citrobacter gillenii Brenner et al. 2000
species	Citrobacter koseri Frederiksen 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Citrobacter murliniae Brenner et al. 2000
species	Citrobacter pasteurii Clermont et al. 2015
species	Citrobacter portucalensis Ribeiro et al. 2017
species	Citrobacter rodentium Schauer et al. 1996
species	Citrobacter sedlakii Brenner et al. 1993
species	Citrobacter telavivensis corrig. Ribeiro et al. 2021
species	Citrobacter werkmanii Brenner et al. 1993
species	Citrobacter youngae Brenner et al. 1993
species	Citrobacter sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Citrobacter Werkman and Gillen 1932 emend. Sakazaki 1974 (Approved Lists 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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the genus Citrobacter Werkman and Gillen 1932 emend. Sakazaki 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3130.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3130.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2021.

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