Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1967

Name

Kingella Henriksen and Bøvre 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dewhirst et al. 1993

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Neisseriaceae Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Chen et al. 2021

Members

species	Kingella kingae (Henriksen and Bøvre 1968) Henriksen and Bøvre 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Kingella denitrificans Snell and Lapage 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hollis et al. 1983
species	Kingella indologenes Snell and Lapage 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Kingella negevensis El Houmami et al. 2017
species	Kingella oralis corrig. Dewhirst et al. 1993
species	Kingella potus Lawson et al. 2005

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Neisseriales Tønjum 2006 emend. Chen et al. 2021
family Neisseriaceae Prévot 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Chen et al. 2021
genus Kingella Henriksen and Bøvre 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dewhirst et al. 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.

Citation

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Kingella Henriksen and Bøvre 1976 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dewhirst et al. 1993. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1967.


This information was last reviewed on July 13, 2017.

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