Genus Atlantibacter

Name: Atlantibacter Hata et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Atlan.ti.bac’ter. N.L. fem. n. Atlanta, the city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and many researchers investigating the family Enterobacteriaceae are located; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Atlantibacter, a rod named in memory of Atlanta

Gender: masculine (stem: Atlantibacter-)

Type species: Atlantibacter hermannii (Brenner et al. 1983) Hata et al. 2025

Effective publication: Hata H, Natori T, Mizuno T, Kanazawa I, Eldesouky I, Hayashi M, Miyata M, Fukunaga H, Ohji S, Hosoyama A, et al. Phylogenetics of family Enterobacteriaceae and proposal to reclassify Escherichia hermannii and Salmonella subterranea as Atlantibacter hermannii and Atlantibacter subterranea gen. nov., comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 2016; 60:303-311.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 221. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6562.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 3

Parent taxon: Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hata H, Natori T, Mizuno T, Kanazawa I, Eldesouky I, Hayashi M, Miyata M, Fukunaga H, Ohji S, Hosoyama A, et al. Phylogenetics of family Enterobacteriaceae and proposal to reclassify Escherichia hermannii and Salmonella subterranea as Atlantibacter hermannii and Atlantibacter subterranea gen. nov., comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 2016; 60:303-311.

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Record number: 57155
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