Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3227

Name

Morganella Fulton 1943 (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	Morganellaceae Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Morganella morganii (Winslow et al. 1919) Fulton 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Morganella psychrotolerans Emborg et al. 2006
species	Morganella 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 Morganellaceae Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Morganella Fulton 1943 (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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Morganella Fulton 1943 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3227.

Source File

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This information was last reviewed on October 25, 2018.

References

Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, Gupta RS. Genome based phylogeny and taxonomy of the "Enterobacteriales": proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001485 [PubMed].
Fulton M. The Identity of Bacterium Columbensis Castellani. J Bacteriol 1943; 46:79-82. [PubMed].
Emborg J, Dalgaard P, Ahrens P. Morganella psychrotolerans sp. nov., a histamine-producing bacterium isolated from various seafoods. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2473-2479. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64357-0 [PubMed].
Lautrop H. Genus X. Proteus Mauser 1885, 12. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 327-330.
No reference is available 2015