What is the taxonomic classification of E. coli?

Domain: Bacteria. Kingdom: Bacteria. Phylum: Proteobacteria. Class: Gamma Proteobacteria. Order: Enterobacteriales. Family: Enterobacteriaceae. Genus: Escherichia. Species: Escherichia coli (E. coli). Retrieved from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image Where do I fit? read more

Genus: Escherichia coli fits into the Genus Escherichia (which is named for the person who discovered this genus, Theodor Escherich) because members of this group are mostly opportunistic flora that are enteric (colonize in the intestinal tract of mammals). read more

E. coli is the type species of the genus (Escherichia) and in turn Escherichia is the type genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae, where the family name does not stem from the genus Enterobacter +"i" (sic.) +"aceae", but from"enterobacterium" +"aceae" (enterobacterium being not a genus, but an alternative trivial name to enteric bacterium). read more