Name: Yersinia van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: 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

Type species: Yersinia pestis (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Van Loghem JJ. The classification of 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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Yersiniaceae 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.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Yersenia"; "Yersina".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 20
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 21
Total number of child taxa: 21

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Yersinia aldovae Bercovier et al. 1984	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia aleksiciae Sprague and Neubauer 2005	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia bercovieri Wauters et al. 1988	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia canariae Nguyen et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia enterocolitica (Schleifstein and Coleman 1939) Frederiksen 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia entomophaga Hurst et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia frederiksenii Ursing et al. 1981	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia hibernica Nguyen et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia intermedia Brenner et al. 1981	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia kristensenii Bercovier et al. 1981	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia massiliensis Merhej et al. 2008	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia mollaretii Wauters et al. 1988	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia nurmii Murros-Kontiainen et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia pekkanenii Murros-Kontiainen et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia pestis (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published, conserved name	correct name
    Yersinia philomiragia Jensen et al. 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Pfeiffer 1889) Smith and Thal 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia rohdei Aleksic et al. 1987	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia ruckeri Ewing et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia similis Sprague et al. 2008	validly published	correct name
    Yersinia wautersii Savin et al. 2014	validly published	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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