Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3513

Name

Lawsonia McOrist et al. 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	Desulfovibrionaceae Kuever et al. 2006

Members

species	Lawsonia intracellularis (Gebhart et al. 1993) McOrist et al. 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 Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2020
class Desulfovibrionia Waite et al. 2020
order Desulfovibrionales Kuever et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020
family Desulfovibrionaceae Kuever et al. 2006
genus Lawsonia McOrist et al. 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 Lawsonia McOrist et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3513.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3513.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 10, 2018.

References

Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family I. Desulfovibrionaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 926.
McOrist S, Gebhart CJ, Boid R, Barns SM. Characterization of Lawsonia intracellularis gen. nov., sp. nov., the obligately intracellular bacterium of porcine proliferative enteropathy. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:820-825. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-4-820 [PubMed].