Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8987

Name

Neoehrlichia Kawahara et al. 2004

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	Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Members

species	Neoehrlichia mikurensis Kawahara et al. 2004
species	Neoehrlichia arcana Gofton et al. 2016
species	Neoehrlichia australis Gofton et al. 2016
species	Neoehrlichia chilensis Müller et al. 2018
species	Neoehrlichia lotoris (sic) Yabsley et al. 2008
species	Neoehrlichia tanzania (sic) Schwameis et al. 2016

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 Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Neoehrlichia Kawahara et al. 2004

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 Neoehrlichia Kawahara et al. 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8987.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8987.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

References

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Gofton AW, Doggett S, Ratchford A, Ryan U, Irwin P. Phylogenetic characterisation of two novel Anaplasmataceae, 'Candidatus Neoehrlichia australis' and 'Candidatus Neoehrlichia arcana', from Australian Ixodes holocyclus ticks. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4256-4261. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001344 [PubMed].
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