Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34605

Names

Megaira (sic) Schrallhammer et al. 2013 emend. Lanzoni et al. 2019, Megaera corrig. Schrallhammer et al. 2013 emend. Lanzoni et al. 2019

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	Rickettsiaceae Pinkerton 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Members

species	Megaera polyxenophila corrig. Schrallhammer et al. 2013 emend. Lanzoni et al. 2019
species	Megaira venefica Lanzoni et al. 2019

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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
family Rickettsiaceae Pinkerton 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Megaira (sic) Schrallhammer et al. 2013 emend. Lanzoni et al. 2019

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 Megaira (sic) Schrallhammer et al. 2013 emend. Lanzoni et al. 2019 and Megaera corrig. Schrallhammer et al. 2013 emend. Lanzoni et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34605.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34605.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 23, 2020.

References

Schrallhammer M, Ferrantini F, Vannini C, Galati S, Schweikert M, Görtz H-D, Verni F, Petroni G. 'Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila' gen. nov., sp. nov.: considerations on evolutionary history, host range and shift of early divergent rickettsiae. PLoS One 2013; 8:e72581-e72581. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072581 [PubMed].
Lanzoni O, Sabaneyeva E, Modeo L, Castelli M, Lebedeva N, Verni F, Schrallhammer M, Potekhin A, Petroni G. Diversity and environmental distribution of the cosmopolitan endosymbiont "Candidatus Megaira". Sci Rep 2019; 9:1179-1179. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37629-w [PubMed].