Name: Listeria Pirie 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Listeria, named after Lord Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antisepsis

Gender: feminine

Type species: Listeria monocytogenes (Murray et al. 1926) Pirie 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Pirie JHH. The genus Listerella Pirie. Science (Washington) 1940; 91:383.

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

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Listeriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010. Publication: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Family III. Listeriaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 244.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Corynebacteriaceae Lehmann and Neumann 1907 (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.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus [Bacterium]. Publication: Murray EGD, Webb AA, Swann MBR. A disease of rabbits characterized by a large mononuclear leucocytosis caused by a hitherto underscribed bacillus Bacterium monocytogenes n. sp. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology 1926; 29:407-439.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Lysteria".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 21
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 23
Total number of child taxa: 23

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Listeria aquatica Den Bakker et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Listeria booriae Weller et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Listeria cornellensis Den Bakker et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Listeria costaricensis Núñez-Montero et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Listeria denitrificans Prévot 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Listeria fleischmannii Bertsch et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
    Listeria floridensis Den Bakker et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Listeria goaensis Doijad et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Listeria grandensis Den Bakker et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Listeria grayi Errebo Larsen and Seeliger 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Listeria innocua (ex Seeliger and Schoofs 1979) Seeliger 1983	validly published	correct name
    Listeria ivanovii Seeliger et al. 1984	validly published	correct name
    Listeria marthii Graves et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Listeria monocytogenes (Murray et al. 1926) Pirie 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Listeria murrayi Welshimer and Meredith 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Listeria newyorkensis Weller et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Listeria riparia Den Bakker et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Listeria rocourtiae Leclercq et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Listeria seeligeri Rocourt and Grimont 1983	validly published	correct name
    Listeria thailandensis Leclercq et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
    Listeria valentina Quereda et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Listeria weihenstephanensis Lang Halter et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
    Listeria welshimeri Rocourt and Grimont 1983	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Listeriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Family III. Listeriaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 244.

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