Genus Enterobacter

Name: Enterobacter Hormaeche and Edwards 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: En.te.ro.bac’ter Gr. n. enteron, intestine; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a small rod; N.L. masc. n. Enterobacter, intestinal small rod

Gender: masculine

Type species: Enterobacter cloacae (Jordan 1890) Hormaeche and Edwards 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Hormaeche E, Edwards PR. A proposed genus Enterobacter. International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy 1960; 10:71-74.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published, conserved name

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Brady et al. 2013 Brady C, Cleenwerck I, Venter S, Coutinho T, De Vos P. Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:309-319. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 19. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:8-10.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the removal of 11 species from the genus.

Notes:
- Nomenclatural type of the family Enterobacteraceae (ex Lapage 1979) Lapage 1982. Publication: Lapage SP. Proposal of Enterobacteraceae fam. nov., nom. rev. as a Substitute for the Family Name Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1982; 32:237-238.
- Nomenclatural type of the order Enterobacterales Adeolu et al. 2016. Publication: Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599.
- The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Jordan EO. A report on certain species of bacteria observed in sewage. In: Sedgewick WT (eds), A report of the biological work of the Lawrence Experiment Station, including an account of methods employed and results obtained in the microscopical and bacteriological investigation of sewage and water. Report on water supply and sewerage (Part II). Report of the Massachusetts Board of Public Health, Massachusetts Board of Public Health, Boston, 1890, p. 821-844.
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Entrobacter".
- According to the Judicial Opinion 15, the genus Enterobacter Hormaeche and Edwards 1960 (Approved Lists 1980) is an exception to Rules 15 and 21a because it is not the type genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). The Judicial Opinion 15 states that the nomenclatural type of the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980) is the the genus Escherichia Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Lapage SP, Sneath PHA, Lessel EF, Skerman VBD, Seeliger HPR, Clark WA. International code of nomenclature of bacteria (1990 revision). American Society for Microbiology, Washington, 1992.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 42
Total number of child taxa: 45

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Enterobacter aerogenes Hormaeche and Edwards 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter agglomerans (Beijerinck 1888) Ewing and Fife 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter amnigenus Izard et al. 1981	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter arachidis Madhaiyan et al. 2010	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter asburiae Brenner et al. 1988	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter bugandensis Doijad et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter cancerogenus (Urosevic 1966) Dickey and Zumoff 1988	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter chengduensis Wu et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter chuandaensis Wu et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter cloacae (Jordan 1890) Hormaeche and Edwards 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter cowanii Inoue et al. 2001	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter dissolvens (Rosen 1922) Brenner et al. 1988	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter gergoviae Brenner et al. 1980	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter helveticus Stephan et al. 2007	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter hormaechei O'Hara et al. 1990	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter huaxiensis Wu et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter intermedium (sic) Izard et al. 1980	misspelling	synonym
Enterobacter intermedius corrig. Izard et al. 1980	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter kobei Kosako et al. 1997	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter ludwigii Hoffmann et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter massiliensis Lagier et al. 2014	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter mori Zhu et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter muelleri Kämpfer et al. 2015	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter nimipressuralis (Carter 1945) Brenner et al. 1988	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter oligotrophica (sic) Akita et al. 2020	misspelling	synonym
Enterobacter oligotrophicus corrig. Akita et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter oryzae Peng et al. 2009	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter oryzendophyticus Hardoim et al. 2015	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter oryziphilus Hardoim et al. 2015	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter pulveris Stephan et al. 2008	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter pyrinus Chung et al. 1993	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter quasihormaechei Wang et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter radicincitans Kämpfer et al. 2005	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter roggenkampii Sutton et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter sacchari Zhu et al. 2013	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter sakazakii Farmer et al. 1980	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter siamensis Khunthongpan et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter sichuanensis Wu et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter soli Manter et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter tabaci Duan et al. 2016	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter taylorae Farmer et al. 1985	validly published	synonym
"Enterobacter timonensis" Takakura et al. 2019	not validly published
Enterobacter turicensis Stephan et al. 2007	validly published	synonym
Enterobacter wuhouensis Wang et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
Enterobacter xiangfangensis Gu et al. 2014	validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599.

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