Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.979

Name

Anaplasma Theiler 1910 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

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	Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Members

species	Anaplasma marginale Theiler 1910 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Anaplasma africae Dahmani et al. 2019
species	Anaplasma boleense Guo et al. 2016
species	Anaplasma bovis Dumler et al. 2001
species	Anaplasma camelii (sic) Bastos et al. 2015
species	Anaplasma capra Li et al. 2015
species	Anaplasma caudatum Ristic and Kreier 1984
species	Anaplasma centrale (ex Theiler 1911) Ristic and Kreier 1984 emend. Khumalo et al. 2018
species	Anaplasma corsicanum Dahmani et al. 2017
species	Anaplasma ivorensis (sic) Ehounoud et al. 2016
species	Anaplasma mediterraneum Dahmani et al. 2017
species	Anaplasma ovis Lestoquard 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Anaplasma phagocytophilum corrig. (Foggie 1949) Dumler et al. 2001
species	Anaplasma platys Dumler et al. 2001
species	Anaplasma rodmosense Guo et al. 2016
species	Anaplasma sphenisci Vanstreels et al. 2018

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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
family Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Anaplasma Theiler 1910 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

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 Anaplasma Theiler 1910 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.979.

Source File

10.1601/tx.979.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 30, 2020.

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