Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Acinetobacter higginsii

Name: Acinetobacter higginsii Nemec et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hig.gin’si.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. higginsii, of Higgins, named after Paul G. Higgins, a Scottish medical microbiologist

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 17988; Bouvet; CCM 9243; CCUG 996; CIP 70.18; CNCTC 7558; Henriksen 4233/62; Jeanjean 78; LMG 1031; NIPH 1872

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16S rRNA gene: OR350514 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nemec A, Spanelova P, Shestivska V, Radolfova-Krizova L, Maixnerova M, Feng Y, Qin J, Cevallos MA, Zong Z. Proposal for Acinetobacter higginsii sp. nov. to accommodate organisms of human clinical origin previously classified as Acinetobacter genomic species 16. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6114.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Acinetobacter Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nemec A, Spanelova P, Shestivska V, Radolfova-Krizova L, Maixnerova M, Feng Y, Qin J, Cevallos MA, Zong Z. Proposal for Acinetobacter higginsii sp. nov. to accommodate organisms of human clinical origin previously classified as Acinetobacter genomic species 16. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6114.

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Record number: 40885
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