Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3340

Name

Wigglesworthia Aksoy 1995

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	Erwiniaceae Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Wigglesworthia glossinidia Aksoy 1995

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 Erwiniaceae Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Wigglesworthia Aksoy 1995

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 Wigglesworthia Aksoy 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3340.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3340.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 15, 2009.

References

Aksoy S. Wigglesworthia gen. nov. and Wigglesworthia glossinidia sp. nov., taxa consisting of the mycetocyte-associated, primary endosymbionts of tsetse flies. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:848-851. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-4-848 [PubMed].
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].