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Morganella
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Translingual
right|thumb|Morganella morganii species (bacteria) on blood agar
Etymology
From mul en Morgan a surname mul ella.
bacterium After British bacteriologist Harry de R. Morgan.
insect genus Authored by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1897, after Albert C. F. Morgan, the entomologist who first described Morganella longispina species, the type species of Morganella, as Aspidiotus longispina in 1889.
puffball fungus After American botanist Andrew Price Morgan.
fossil brachiopod Authored by R. G. McKellar in 1970. Named for the Mount Morgan, Queensland Mount Morgan district in Queensland, Australia, where the type species Morganella maxwelli species was found. The mountain was named for the Morgan brothers (Frederick, Edwin and Thomas) who developed a gold mine in the mountain in the 1880s. The type species was named in honour of G. W. H. Maxwell, who discovered and described the shell originally.
Proper noun
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genus family Morganellaceae family certain bacteria including the type species Morganella morganii species, a gram-negative bacterium that lives commensally in the intestinal tracts of reptiles and mammals, including humans
genus family Diaspididae certain scale insects
genus family Agaricaceae certain puffball fungi Previously placed in the family Lycoperdaceae family.
(†Morganella) genus family †Araksalosiidae family certain fossil brachiopods of the Devonian period
Hypernyms
bacterium
genus in Diaspididae
Hyponyms
bacterium Morganella morganii species type species, Morganella psychrotolerans species species
insect genus Morganella acaciae species, Morganella conspicua species, Morganella cueroensis species, Morganella longispina species, Morganella polyctena species, Morganella pseudospinigera species, Morganella spinigera species species
puffball fungus Morganella afra species, Morganella albina species, Morganella compacta species, Morganella costaricensis species, Morganella fuliginea species, Morganella mexicana species, Morganella puiggarii species, Morganella purpurascens species, Morganella pyriformis species, Morganella samoensis species, Morganella stercoraria species, Morganella subincarnata species, Morganella velutina species species
fossil brachiopod Morganella maxwelli species species
See also
Morganiella genus (fungus gnats)
References
bacterium
Morganella morganii 1
Morganella (Enterobacteriaceae)
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insect genus
Morganella (insect)
Morganella (Diaspididae)
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Morgan, A. C. F., 1889. Observations on Coccidae (No. 5). Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 25: 349–353
Cockerell, T. D. A., 1897. The San Jose scale and its nearest allies. U. S. Department of Agriculture Division of Entomology, Technical Series 6
puffball fungus
Morganella (fungus)
Morganella (Agaricaceae)
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fossil brachiopod
The Devonian productoid brachiopod faunas of Queensland. Publs geol. Surv. Qd, No. 342 1970: 17–19
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mul taxonomic eponyms