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Name: Yersinia van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
Etymology: Yer.sin’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Yersinia, named for the French bacteriologist A.J.E. Yersin, who first isolated the causal organism of plague in 1894
Gender: feminine (stem: Yersini-)
Type species: Yersinia pestis (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication: Van Loghem JJ. The classification of the plague-bacillus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Journal of Microbiology and Serology 1944; 10:15-16.
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 under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 26
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 28
Total number of child taxa: 28
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
---|---|---|
Yersinia aldovae Bercovier et al. 1984 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia aleksiciae Sprague and Neubauer 2005 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia alsatica Le Guern et al. 2020 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia artesiana Le Guern et al. 2020 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia bercovieri Wauters et al. 1988 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia canariae Nguyen et al. 2020 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia enterocolitica (Schleifstein and Coleman 1939) Frederiksen 1964 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia entomophaga Hurst et al. 2011 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia frederiksenii Ursing et al. 1981 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia hibernica Nguyen et al. 2019 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia intermedia Brenner et al. 1981 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia kristensenii Bercovier et al. 1981 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia massiliensis Merhej et al. 2008 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia mollaretii Wauters et al. 1988 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia nurmii Murros-Kontiainen et al. 2011 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia occitanica Le Guern et al. 2020 | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Yersinia pekkanenii Murros-Kontiainen et al. 2011 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia pestis (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published under the ICNP, conserved name | correct name |
Yersinia philomiragia Jensen et al. 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published under the ICNP | synonym |
Yersinia proxima Le Guern et al. 2020 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Pfeiffer 1889) Smith and Thal 1965 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia rochesterensis (Cunningham et al. 2019) Nguyen et al. 2021 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia rohdei Aleksic et al. 1987 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia ruckeri Ewing et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia similis Sprague et al. 2008 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia thracica Le Guern et al. 2020 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia vastinensis Le Guern et al. 2020 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Yersinia wautersii Savin et al. 2014 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Parent taxon: Yersiniaceae Adeolu et al. 2016
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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Record number: 516947