Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3329

Name

Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 emend. Carpenter 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	Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga 1898) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Shigella boydii Ewing 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Shigella flexneri Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Shigella sonnei (Levine 1920) Weldin 1927 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Shigella sp. None 2015

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 Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 emend. Carpenter 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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Taxon Abstract for the genus Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 emend. Carpenter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3329.


This information was last reviewed on October 25, 2018.

References

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].
Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Genus Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1918. Manual of Tropical Medicine, Third Edition, Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919, p. 936-938.
Weldin JC. The colon-typhoid group of bacteria and related forms. Relationships and classification. Iowa St Coll J Sci 1927; 1:121-197.
Ewing WH. Shigella nomenclature. J Bacteriol 1949; 57:633-638. [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015