Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.991
Name
 Moshkovski 1945 (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 RecordName Record
Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
Members
(Donatien and Lestoquard 1935) Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
Anderson et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Lewis et al. 1988
Anderson et al. 1992 emend. Dumler et al. 2001
Lin et al. 2022
corrig. Rar et al. 2015
Cabezas-Cruz et al. 2016
Wen et al. 1995 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Gofton et al. 2017
Gofton et al. 2018
Lynn et al. 2019
(Foggie 1949) Philip 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)
Bastos et al. 2015
Holland et al. 1985
(Cowdry 1925) Dumler et al. 2001 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Ehounoud et al. 2016
(Misao and Kobayashi 1956) Ristic and Huxsoll 1984
Kawahara et al. 2006
Ehounoud et al. 2016
corrig. Brouqui et al. 2003
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
  Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
  Moshkovski 1945 (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 Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.991.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on April 22, 2022.

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