Kingdom : Bacteria
Phylum : Proteobacteria
Class : Gammaproteobacteria
Order : Pseudomonadales
Family : Moraxellaceae
Genus : Moraxella
Name: Moraxella Lwoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)
Etymology: N.L. fem. dim. n. Moraxella, named after V. Morax, a Swiss ophthalmologist who pioneered the recognition of the type species
Type species: Moraxella lacunata (Eyre 1900) Lwoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)
Effective publication: Lwoff A. Révision et démembrement des Hemophilae, le genre Moraxella nov. gen. Annales de l’Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1939; 62:168-176.
IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Refrence : http://www.bacterio.net/