Name: Shigella Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
Etymology: N.L. fem. dim. n. Shigella, named after K. Shiga, the Japanese bacteriologist who first discovered the dysentery bacillus
Type species: Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga 1897) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Original publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. Williams Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status: validly published
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Shigella boydii Ewing 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published, conserved name | correct name |
Shigella dysenteriae (Shiga 1897) Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published | correct name |
Shigella flexneri Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published, conserved name | correct name |
Shigella sonnei (Levine 1920) Weldin 1927 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published, conserved name | correct name |
Parent taxon: Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Ewing WH, Farmer Iii JJ, Brenner DJ. Proposal of Enterobacteriaceae fam. nov., nom. rev. to replace Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937, nom. fam. cons. (Opin. 15, Jud. Comm. 1958), which lost standing in nomenclature on 1 January 1980. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1980; 30:674-675.
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Record number: 516593