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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Corynebacterium hesseae

Name: Corynebacterium hesseae Cappelli et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hes’se.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. hesseae, of Hesse, in honor of Fanny Hesse, an American microbiologist, who alongside her husband, Walther Hesse, pioneered the use of agar as a common gelling agent for the production of media capable of culturing microorganisms

Gender: neuter

Type strain: c19Ua_109; CCP 79; DSM 113410

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JAKMUW010000019 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Cappelli EA, Ksiezarek M, Wolf J, Neumann-Schaal M, Ribeiro TG, Peixe L. Expanding the Bacterial Diversity of the Female Urinary Microbiome: Description of Eight New Corynebacterium Species. Microorganisms 2023; 11:388.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 211. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5845.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

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

Assigned by: Cappelli EA, Ksiezarek M, Wolf J, Neumann-Schaal M, Ribeiro TG, Peixe L. Expanding the Bacterial Diversity of the Female Urinary Microbiome: Description of Eight New Corynebacterium Species. Microorganisms 2023; 11:388.

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Record number: 36315
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