Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7770

Name

Chlamydia pneumoniae Grayston et al. 1989

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	Chlamydia Jones et al. 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sachse et al. 2015

Type Strain

representative organism

TW-183^T (=ATCC VR-2282)

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 Chlamydiota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Chlamydiia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Horn 2016 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
order Chlamydiales Storz and Page 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2015
family Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sachse et al. 2015
genus Chlamydia Jones et al. 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sachse et al. 2015
species Chlamydia pneumoniae Grayston et al. 1989

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.17370

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Chlamydia pneumoniae Grayston et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7770.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7770.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 19, 2010.

References

Grayston JT, Kuo CC, Campbell LA, Wang SP. Chlamydia pneumoniae sp. nov. for Chlamydia sp. strain TWAR. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:88-90. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-1-88.