Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9465

Name

Elizabethkingia Kim et al. 2005 emend. Nicholson et al. 2018

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	Weeksellaceae García-López et al. 2020 emend. Nicholson et al. 2020

Members

species	Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (King 1959) Kim et al. 2005 emend. Nicholson et al. 2018
species	Elizabethkingia anophelis Kämpfer et al. 2011 emend. Nicholson et al. 2018
species	Elizabethkingia argenteiflava Hwang et al. 2021
species	Elizabethkingia bruuniana Nicholson et al. 2019
species	Elizabethkingia endophytica Kämpfer et al. 2015
species	Elizabethkingia miricola (Li et al. 2004) Kim et al. 2005 emend. Nicholson et al. 2018
species	Elizabethkingia occulta Nicholson et al. 2019
species	Elizabethkingia ursingii Nicholson et al. 2019

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 Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Flavobacteriia (Cavalier-Smith 1998) Bernardet 2012
order Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Weeksellaceae García-López et al. 2020 emend. Nicholson et al. 2020
genus Elizabethkingia Kim et al. 2005 emend. Nicholson et al. 2018

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 Elizabethkingia Kim et al. 2005 emend. Nicholson et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9465.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9465.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2021.

References

Kämpfer P, Busse H-J, McInroy JA, Glaeser SP. Elizabethkingia endophytica sp. nov., isolated from Zea mays and emended description of Elizabethkingia anophelis Kämpfer et al. 2011. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2187-2193. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000236 [PubMed].
García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front. Microbio. 2019; 10:2083-2083. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083 [PubMed].
Kämpfer P, Matthews H, Glaeser SP, Martin K, Lodders N, Faye I. Elizabethkingia anophelis sp. nov., isolated from the midgut of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2670-2675. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.026393-0 [PubMed].
Hwang J-H, Kim J, Kim J-H, Mo S. Elizabethkingia argenteiflava sp. nov., isolated from the pod of soybean, Glycine max. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004767 [PubMed].
Nicholson AC, Gulvik CA, Whitney AM, Humrighouse BW, Graziano J, Emery B, Bell M, Loparev V, Juieng P, Gartin J, Bizet C, Clermont D, Criscuolo A, Brisse S, McQuiston JR. Revisiting the taxonomy of the genus Elizabethkingia using whole-genome sequencing, optical mapping, and MALDI-TOF, along with proposal of three novel Elizabethkingia species: Elizabethkingia bruuniana sp. nov., Elizabethkingia ursingii sp. nov., and Elizabethkingia occulta sp. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:55-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-017-0926-3 [PubMed].
Kim KK, Kim MK, Lim JH, Park HY, Lee ST. Transfer of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Chryseobacterium miricola to Elizabethkingia gen. nov. as Elizabethkingia meningoseptica comb. nov. and Elizabethkingia miricola comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1287-1293. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63541-0 [PubMed].