Enterobacteriaceae

Translingual

Escherichia coli

Etymology

New Latin, from English enterobacterium +‎ -aceae.

Proper noun

Enterobacteriaceae

1. A taxonomic family within the order Enterobacterales – many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria including many pathogens.

Hypernyms

• (family): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria – class; Enterobacterales – order

Hyponyms

• (family): Escherichia – type genus; Alishewanella, Alterococcus, Aquamonas, Aranicola, Arsenophonus, Averyella, Azotivirga, Brenneria, Buchnera, Budvicia, Buttiauxella, Cedecea, Citrobacter, Dickeya, Edwardsiella (now in Hafniaceae), Enterobacter, Erwinia, Ewingella (now in Yersiniaceae), Grimontella, Hafnia (now in Hafniaceae), Klebsiella, Kluyvera, Leclercia, Leminorella, Moellerella, Morganella, Obesumbacterium (now in Hafniaceae), Pantoea, Pectobacterium, Photorhabdus, Plesiomonas, Pragia, Proteus, Providencia, Rahnella (now in Yersiniaceae), Raoultella (now in Yersiniaceae), Salmonella, Samsonia (now in Yersiniaceae), Serratia (now in Yersiniaceae), Shigella, Sodalis, Tatumella, Thorsellia, Tiedjeia, Trabulsiella, Wigglesworthia, Xenorhabdus, Yersinia (now in Yersiniaceae), Yokenella (other genera)

See also

• Yersiniaceae

References

• Enterobacteriaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Enterobacteriaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Enterobacteriaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Enterobacteriaceae at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature