Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.952
Name
da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Pinkerton 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
Members
da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Beati et al. 1997
Kelly et al. 1996
(sic) Buysse and Duron 2020
Huebner et al. 1946 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Labruna et al. 2004) Karpathy et al. 2016
Labruna et al. 2004
(sic) Jiang et al. 2005
(sic) Anstead and Chilton 2013
Guo et al. 2016
Owen et al. 2006
Jiang et al. 2013
(Jiang et al. 2013) Maina et al. 2016
Fujita et al. 2006
Philip 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Mura et al. 2008
Philip et al. 1983 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Wang et al. 2020
Kurtti et al. 2015
(sic) McKiel et al. 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)
corrig. Quintero Vélez et al. 2017
Brumpt 1932 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
(ex Entwistle and Robertson 1968) Guo et al. 2016
corrig. Mediannikov et al. 2007
Bouyer et al. 2001 emend. La Scola et al. 2002
Diop et al. 2018
corrig. Yang et al. 2016
(sic) Keysary et al. 2011
Abdad et al. 2017
(sic) Zou et al. 2011
Fournier et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Beati et al. 1993
Stenos et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Duh et al. 2010 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Hornok et al. 2010
corrig. Anstead and Chilton 2013
Uchida et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
(sic) Qin et al. 2019
Liu et al. 2016
Rolain et al. 2006
Taylor et al. 2016
Sréter-Lancz et al. 2006
corrig. Merhej and Raoult 2011
Eremeeva et al. 2018
Taylor et al. 2016
corrig. Huang et al. 2017
Mediannikov et al. 2012
(sic) Jiang et al. 2018
(sic) Taylor et al. 2016
Beati and Raoult 1993
Buysse and Duron 2020
Hajduskova et al. 2016
Simser et al. 2019
corrig. (ex Lackman et al. 1965) Weiss and Moulder 1984
Kimita et al. 2016
Moreira-Soto et al. 2017
Peckle et al. 2019
Lackman et al. 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)
Niebylski et al. 1997
Mediannikov et al. 2006
Mediannikov et al. 2008 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Mediannikov et al. 2007
(ex Burgdorfer et al. 1978) Weiss and Moulder 1988
(Wolbach 1919) Brumpt 1922 (Approved Lists 1980)
(sic) Portillo et al. 2009
Mediannikov et al. 2015
Misao and Kobayashi 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
Zdrodovskii 1948 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Eremeeva and Stromdahl 2011
Sekeyová et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Fournier et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Shpynov et al. 2003
corrig. Izzard et al. 2009
(sic) Schötta et al. 2020
corrig. Wang et al. 2012
Gauthier et al. 2021
(Hayashi 1920) Ogata 1931 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Wolbach and Todd 1920) Philip 1943 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
(sic) Mediannikov et al. 2007
Igolkina et al. 2015
Palomar et al. 2012
Tahir et al. 2016
Li et al. 2020
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.

  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2006
  Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
  Pinkerton 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
  da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (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 Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.952.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

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