Name: Haemophilus Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. n. haima, blood (Latin transliteration haema); N.L. masc. adj. philus, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. n. Haemophilus, blood-lover

Gender: masculine

Type species: Haemophilus influenzae (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1917; 2:505-566.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the tribe Haemophileae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Brucellaceae Breed et al. 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Castellani and Chalmers (1919) assigned this genus to the tribe Haemophileae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus [Bacterium]. Publication: Lehmann KB, Neumann R. Atlas und Grundriss der Bakteriologie und Lehrbuch der speziellen bakteriologischen Diagnostik. Teil 2: Text, 1st ed. J.F. Lehmann, München, 1896.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Haemophilis"; "Haemophilius"; "Haemophillus"; "Haemophylus"; "Heamophilus"; "Huemophilus".
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Christensen H, Kuhnert P. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Pasteurellaceae: minutes of the meetings, 25 August 2011, Elsinore, Denmark. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:257-258.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 25
Total number of child taxa: 26

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans (Klinger 1912) Potts et al. 1985	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus aegyptius corrig. (Trevisan 1889) Pittman and Davis 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus aphrophilus Khairat 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus avium Hinz and Kunjara 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    "Haemophilus bovis" Hauduroy et al. 1937	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    Haemophilus ducreyi (Neveu-Lemaire 1921) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus equigenitalis Taylor et al. 1983	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus felis Inzana et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus haemoglobinophilus (Lehmann and Neumann 1907) Murray 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus haemolyticus Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus influenzae (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus massiliensis Lo et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus paracuniculus Targowski and Targowski 1984	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus paragallinarum Biberstein and White 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus parahaemolyticus Pittman 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus parainfluenzae Rivers 1922 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus paraphrohaemolyticus Zinnemann et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus paraphrophilus Zinnemann et al. 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus parasuis Biberstein and White 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus piscium corrig. Snieszko et al. 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus pittmaniae Nørskov-Lauritsen et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae corrig. Shope 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus segnis Kilian 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Haemophilus seminalis Zheng et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus sputorum Nørskov-Lauritsen et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    Haemophilus vaginalis Gardner and Dukes 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Pasteurellaceae Pohl 1981

Assigned by: Lo CI, Sankar SA, Fall B, Sambe-Ba B, Diawara S, Gueye MW, Mediannikov O, Blanc-Tailleur C, Wade B, Raoult D, et al. High-quality draft genome sequence and description of Haemophilus massiliensis sp. nov. Stand Genomic Sci 2016; 11:31.

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