Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3276

Name

Providencia Ewing 1962 (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	Providencia alcalifaciens (de Salles Gomes 1944) Ewing 1962 (Approved Lists 1980) pro synon. Proteus inconstans (Ornstein 1920) Shaw and Clarke 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Providencia burhodogranariea Juneja and Lazzaro 2009
species	Providencia friedericiana Müller 1983
species	Providencia heimbachae Müller et al. 1986
species	Providencia huaxiensis Hu et al. 2019
species	Providencia rettgeri (Hadley et al. 1918) Brenner et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) pro synon. Proteus rettgeri (Hadley et al. 1918) Rustigian and Stuart 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Providencia rustigianii Hickman-Brenner et al. 1983
species	Providencia sneebia Juneja and Lazzaro 2009
species	Providencia stuartii (Buttiaux et al. 1954) Ewing 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Providencia thailandensis Khunthongpan et al. 2014
species	Providencia vermicola Somvanshi et al. 2006

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 Providencia Ewing 1962 (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 Providencia Ewing 1962 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3276.

Source File

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This information was last reviewed on August 27, 2019.

References

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