Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3220

Name

Leclercia Tamura et al. 1987

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	Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Leclercia adecarboxylata (Leclerc 1962) Tamura et al. 1987
species	Leclercia pneumoniae Hönemann et al. 2022

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 Enterobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Adeolu et al. 2016
family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Leclercia Tamura et al. 1987

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 Leclercia Tamura et al. 1987. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3220.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3220.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2022.

References

Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, Gupta RS. Genome based phylogeny and taxonomy of the "Enterobacteriales": proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001485 [PubMed].
Tamura K, Sakazaki R, Kosako Y, Yoshizaki E. Leclercia adecarboxylata gen. nov., comb. nov. formerly known as Escherichia adecarboxylata. Curr Microbiol 1986; 13:179-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01568943.
Hönemann M, Viehweger A, Dietze N, Johnke J, Rodloff AC. Leclercia pneumoniae sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from clinical specimen in Leipzig, Germany. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005293 [PubMed].