Name DOI
10.1601/nm.952
Name
 da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Nomenclatural Type
(designated species)
 da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History
The genus Rickettsia was originally proposed by da Rocha-Lima 1916. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. This name was placed onto the nomina taxorum conservanda by Judicial Opinion 19 in 1958. Weiss and Moulder published an emended description of this genus in 1974.
Citation
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Source File
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References

  1. Weiss E, Moulder JW. Genus I. Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916, 567; Nom. gens. cons. Opin. 19, Jud. Comm. 1958, 158. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 883-890.
  2. Diop A, El Karkouri K, Raoult D, Fournier P-E. Genome sequence-based criteria for demarcation and definition of species in the genus Rickettsia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1738-1750. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003963 [PubMed].
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  4. Philip CB. Conservation of the Generic Name Rickettsia and of the Specific Epithet Prowazekii in the Species Name Rickettsia Prowazekii: Request for an Opinion. File no. 39. Int Bull Bacteriol Nomencl Taxon 1952; 2:69-70.
  5. da Rocha-Lima H. Zur Aetiologie des Fleckfeibers. Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift 1916; 53:567-569.
  6. Judicial Commission. Opinion 19. Conservation of the Generic Name Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima and of the Species Name Rickettsia prowazekii da Rocha-Lima. Int Bull Bacteriol Nomencl Taxon 1958; 8:158-169. https://doi.org/10.1099/0096266X-8-3-4-158.