Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.965

Name

Rickettsia massiliae Beati and Raoult 1993

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	Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

Mtu1^T

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 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 Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 emend. Weiss and Moulder 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Rickettsia massiliae Beati and Raoult 1993

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.16214	ATCC VR-1376 (=MTU5)

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Rickettsia massiliae Beati and Raoult 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.965.

Source File

10.1601/tx.965.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 2, 2010.

References

Beati L, Raoult D. Rickettsia massiliae sp. nov., a new spotted fever group Rickettsia. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:839-840. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-4-839 [PubMed].