Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3270

Name

Proteus inconstans (Ornstein 1920) Shaw and Clarke 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Proteus Hauser 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hyun et al. 2016

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 30120^T (=NCTC 10286 =ATCC 9886 =CIP 82.90)

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 Morganellaceae Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Proteus Hauser 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hyun et al. 2016
species Proteus inconstans (Ornstein 1920) Shaw and Clarke 1955 (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 species Proteus inconstans (Ornstein 1920) Shaw and Clarke 1955 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3270.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3270.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 9, 2022.

References

Shaw C, Clarke PH. Biochemical classification of Proteus and Providence cultures. J Gen Microbiol 1955; 13:155-161. https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-13-1-155 [PubMed].