Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2313

Name

Piscirickettsia salmonis Fryer et al. 1992

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Piscirickettsia Fryer et al. 1992

Type Strain

representative organism

LF-89^T (=ATCC VR-1361)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005
family Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Piscirickettsia Fryer et al. 1992
species Piscirickettsia salmonis Fryer et al. 1992

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.15702	FIUCHILE-89l01

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Piscirickettsia salmonis Fryer et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2313.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2313.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 13, 2018.

References

Fryer JL, Lannan CN, Giovannoni SJ, Wood ND. Piscirickettsia salmonis gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of an epizootic disease in salmonid fishes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:120-126. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-1-120 [PubMed].