Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2395

Name

Rickettsiella Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021

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	Coxiellaceae Garrity et al. 2005

Members

species	Rickettsiella popilliae (Dutky and Gooden 1952) Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Rickettsiella chironomi (ex Weiser 1963) Weiss et al. 1984
species	Rickettsiella grylli (ex Vago and Martoja 1963) Weiss et al. 1984
species	Rickettsiella isopodorum Kleespies et al. 2014
species	Rickettsiella massiliensis (Mediannikov et al. 2011) Saini and Gupta 2021
species	Rickettsiella stethorae Hall and Badgley 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Rickettsiella viridis Tsuchida et al. 2014

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Legionellales Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Saini and Gupta 2021
family Coxiellaceae Garrity et al. 2005
genus Rickettsiella Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021

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 Rickettsiella Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Saini and Gupta 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2395.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2395.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 16, 2021.

References

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Hall IM, Badgley ME. A rickettsial disease of larvae of species of Stethorus caused by Rickettsiella stethorae, n. sp. J Bacteriol 1957; 74:452-455. [PubMed].
Kleespies RG, Federici BA, Leclerque A. Ultrastructural characterization and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of 'Candidatus Rickettsiella isopodorum', a new lineage of intracellular bacteria infecting woodlice (Crustacea: Isopoda). Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:351-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2014.04.001 [PubMed].
Philip CB. Comments on the classification of the order Rickettsiales. Can J Microbiol 1956; 2:261-270. https://doi.org/10.1139/m56-030 [PubMed].
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Saini N, Gupta RS. A robust phylogenetic framework for members of the order Legionellales and its main genera (Legionella, Aquicella, Coxiella and Rickettsiella) based on phylogenomic analyses and identification of molecular markers demarcating different clades. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:957-982. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-021-01569-9 [PubMed].