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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Corynebacterium comes

Name: Corynebacterium comes Schaffert et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: co’mes. L. masc./fem. n. comes, a companion, because C. comes was isolated from the same initial colony as C. kalinowskii (nominative in apposition)

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 2019; DSM 110640; LMG 31802

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MN714229 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Schaffert L, Ruwe M, Milse J, Hanuschka K, Ortseifen V, Droste J, Brandt D, Schluter L, Kutter Y, Vinke S, et al. Classification of three corynebacterial strains isolated from a small paddock in North Rhine-Westphalia: proposal of Corynebacterium kalinowskii sp. nov., Corynebacterium comes sp. nov. and Corynebacterium occultum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4933.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 71, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5057.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Schaffert L, Ruwe M, Milse J, Hanuschka K, Ortseifen V, Droste J, Brandt D, Schluter L, Kutter Y, Vinke S, et al. Classification of three corynebacterial strains isolated from a small paddock in North Rhine-Westphalia: proposal of Corynebacterium kalinowskii sp. nov., Corynebacterium comes sp. nov. and Corynebacterium occultum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4933.

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Record number: 20296
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