Legionella
See also: legionella
Translingual
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Etymology
Named after American Legion + -ella (taxonomic suffix), referring to an outbreak of pneumonia among those attending an American Legion convention first brought the legionella organisms to scientific attention.
Proper noun
Legionella f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Legionellaceae – gram-negative bacteria, including the species that causes Legionnaires' disease.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Legionellales - order; Legionellaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Legionella pneumophila - type species; Legionella longbeachae, Legionella feeleii, Legionella micdadei, Legionella anisa - selected other species
References
Legionella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Legionella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Legionella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Legionella at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
- Legionella at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Legionella at Encyclopedia of Life
- Legionella at World Register of Marine Species
- Legionella in the Genome Taxonomy Database
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