Name: Atlantibacter hermannii (Brenner et al. 1983) Hata et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Escherichia hermannii Brenner et al. 1983

Etymology: her.man’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. hermannii, after the former chief of the Enteric Section at the CDC, for his many contributions to enteric bacteriology, and Lloyd G. Herman, formerly of the Environmental Services Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, for his contributions to the study of yellow-pigmented bacteria

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 33650; CCUG 15714; CDC 980; CDC 980-72; CIP 103176; CIP 104946; DSM 4560; HAMBI 1693; JCM 1473; LMG 7867; NBRC 105704

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN175345 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hata H, Natori T, Mizuno T, Kanazawa I, Eldesouky I, Hayashi M, Miyata M, Fukunaga H, Ohji S, Hosoyama A, et al. Phylogenetics of family Enterobacteriaceae and proposal to reclassify Escherichia hermannii and Salmonella subterranea as Atlantibacter hermannii and Atlantibacter subterranea gen. nov., comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 2016; 60:303-311.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 221. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6562.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym (taxonomically suspended)

Correct name: Escherichia hermannii Brenner et al. 1983

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Escherichia hermannii Brenner et al. 1983	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Atlantibacter Hata et al. 2025. Publication: Hata H, Natori T, Mizuno T, Kanazawa I, Eldesouky I, Hayashi M, Miyata M, Fukunaga H, Ohji S, Hosoyama A, et al. Phylogenetics of family Enterobacteriaceae and proposal to reclassify Escherichia hermannii and Salmonella subterranea as Atlantibacter hermannii and Atlantibacter subterranea gen. nov., comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 2016; 60:303-311.
  • ❗ Atlantibacter hermannii is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Atlantibacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2025-02-04.
  • 😴 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself. This name is taxonomically suspended (and therefore not recommended for medical use for now) in favour of Escherichia hermannii Brenner et al. 1983. Publication: Brenner DJ, Davis BR, Steigerwalt AG, Riddle CF, McWhorter AC, Allen SD, Farmer JJ, Saitoh Y, Fanning GR. Atypical biogroups of Escherichia coli found in clinical specimens and description of Escherichia hermannii sp. nov. J Clin Microbiol 1982; 15:703-713. Anonymous. Validation list no. 10. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:438-440.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Atlantibacter Hata et al. 2025

Assigned by: Hata H, Natori T, Mizuno T, Kanazawa I, Eldesouky I, Hayashi M, Miyata M, Fukunaga H, Ohji S, Hosoyama A, et al. Phylogenetics of family Enterobacteriaceae and proposal to reclassify Escherichia hermannii and Salmonella subterranea as Atlantibacter hermannii and Atlantibacter subterranea gen. nov., comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 2016; 60:303-311.

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