Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3143

Name

Edwardsiella Ewing et al. 1965 emend. Sakazaki 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Hafniaceae Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Edwardsiella tarda Ewing et al. 1965 (Approved Lists 1980) pro synon. Edwardsiella anguillimortifera (Hoshina 1962) Sakazaki and Tamura 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Edwardsiella anguillarum Shao et al. 2015
species	Edwardsiella anguillimortifera (Hoshina 1962) Sakazaki and Tamura 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Edwardsiella hoshinae Grimont et al. 1981
species	Edwardsiella ictaluri Hawke et al. 1981
species	Edwardsiella piscicida Abayneh et al. 2013

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Enterobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Adeolu et al. 2016
family Hafniaceae Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Edwardsiella Ewing et al. 1965 emend. Sakazaki 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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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This information was last reviewed on March 13, 2015.

References

Ewing WH, McWhorter AC, Escobar MR, Lubin AH. Edwardsiella, a new genus of Enterobacteriaceae based on a new species, E. tarda. Int Bull Bacteriol Nomencl Taxon 1965; 15:33-38. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-15-1-33.
Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, Gupta RS. Genome based phylogeny and taxonomy of the "Enterobacteriales": proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001485 [PubMed].
Grimont PAD, Grimont F, Richard C, Sakazaki R. Edwardsiella hoshinae, a new species of Enterobacteriaceae. Curr Microbiol 1981; 4:347-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02605375.
Sakazaki R. Genus II. Edwardsiella Ewing and McWhorter 1965, 37. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 296-296.
Sakazaki R, Tamura K. Priority of the specific epithet anguillimortiferum over the specific epithet tarda in the name of the organism presently known as Edwardsiella tarda. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1975; 25:219-220. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-25-2-219.
Shao S, Lai Q, Liu Q, Wu H, Xiao J, Shao Z, Wang Q, Zhang Y. Phylogenomics characterization of a highly virulent Edwardsiella strain ET080813 encoding two distinct T3SS and three T6SS gene clusters: Propose a novel species as Edwardsiella anguillarum sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:36-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2014.10.008 [PubMed].
Hawke JP, McWhorter AC, Steigerwalt AC, Brenner DJ. Edwardsiella ictaluri sp. nov., the causative agent of enteric septicemia of catfish. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1981; 31:396-400. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-31-4-396.
Abayneh T, Colquhoun DJ, Sørum H. Edwardsiella piscicida sp. nov., a novel species pathogenic to fish. J Appl Microbiol 2012; 114:644-654. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.12080 [PubMed].