Taxonomy ID: 487

Rank: species

Scientific name: Neisseria meningitidis

Authority: "Diplokokkus intracellularis meningitidis" (sic) Weichselbaum 1887; "Micrococcus meningitidis cerebrospinalis" Albrecht and Ghon 1901; "Micrococcus intracellularis" (Jaeger) Migula 1900; Neisseria meningitidis (Albrecht and Ghon 1901) Murray 1929; "Neisseria weichselbaumii" Trevisan 1889; "Micrococcus meningitidis" Albrecht and Ghon 1903

Synonym: Diplokokkus intracellularis meningitidis; Neisseria weichselbaumii; Micrococcus meningitidis; Micrococcus meningitidis cerebrospinalis; Micrococcus intracellularis