Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.2746
Name
 Lwoff 1939 emend. Lautrop 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Catlin 1991
Members
(Eyre 1900) Lwoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)
Bøvre 1979
Bøvre 1979
(Hendrickson and Hilbert 1932) Bruner and Fabricant 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)
Bøvre et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)
Kodjo et al. 1997
(Hauduroy et al. 1937) Murray 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
Angelos et al. 2007
Jannes et al. 1993
Kodjo et al. 1995
(Frosch and Kolle 1896) Henriksen and Bøvre 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Pelczar 1953) Henriksen and Bøvre 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Berger 1962) Bøvre and Hagen 1984
Hughes and Pugh 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)
Vandamme et al. 1993
(Scarlett 1916) Lwoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)
Xie and Yokota 2005
Bøvre and Henriksen 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Lindqvist 1960) Henriksen and Bøvre 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)
Bøvre and Henriksen 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)
Vela et al. 2009
Vela et al. 2010
Flamm 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
Lautrop et al. 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)
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. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
  Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Liao et al. 2020
  Catlin 1991
  Lwoff 1939 emend. Lautrop 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Moraxella Lwoff 1939 emend. Lautrop 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2746.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on July 18, 2018.

References

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