Species Corynebacterium hoagii

Name: Corynebacterium hoagii (Morse 1912) Eberson 1918 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus hoagii" Morse 1912

Etymology: ho.ag’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. hoagii, of Hoag, named for Louis Hoag, the bacteriologist who first isolated this species

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 7005; CCUG 20991; CIP 81.17; DSM 20295; JCM 1319; NBRC 103062; NCTC 10673

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16S rRNA gene: X82052 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Eberson F. A bacteriologic study of the diphtheroid organisms with special reference to Hodgkin's disease. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1918; 23:1-42.

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 under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Preferred name: Rhodococcus hoagii (Morse 1912) Kämpfer et al. 2014

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Bacillus hoagii" Morse 1912	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Rhodococcus hoagii (Morse 1912) Kämpfer et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

Notes:
- According to Kaempfer et al. (2014), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of "Prescottella equi" (Magnusson 1923) Jones et al. 2013 but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Kampfer P, Dott W, Martin K, Glaeser SP. Rhodococcus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of a bioreactor and formal proposal to reclassify [Corynebacterium hoagii] and Rhodococcus equi as Rhodococcus hoagii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:755-761.
- According to Kaempfer et al. (2014), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of "Prescottia equi" (Magnusson 1923) Jones et al. 2013 but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Kampfer P, Dott W, Martin K, Glaeser SP. Rhodococcus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of a bioreactor and formal proposal to reclassify [Corynebacterium hoagii] and Rhodococcus equi as Rhodococcus hoagii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:755-761.
- According to Kaempfer et al. (2014), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Corynebacterium equi Magnusson 1923 (Approved Lists 1980) but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Kampfer P, Dott W, Martin K, Glaeser SP. Rhodococcus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of a bioreactor and formal proposal to reclassify [Corynebacterium hoagii] and Rhodococcus equi as Rhodococcus hoagii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:755-761.
- According to Kaempfer et al. (2014), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Kampfer P, Dott W, Martin K, Glaeser SP. Rhodococcus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of a bioreactor and formal proposal to reclassify [Corynebacterium hoagii] and Rhodococcus equi as Rhodococcus hoagii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:755-761.
- According to Kaempfer et al. (2014), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Prescottella equi (Magnusson 1923) Sangal et al. 2022 but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Kampfer P, Dott W, Martin K, Glaeser SP. Rhodococcus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of a bioreactor and formal proposal to reclassify [Corynebacterium hoagii] and Rhodococcus equi as Rhodococcus hoagii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:755-761.
- According to Nouioui et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of "Prescottella equi" (Magnusson 1923) Jones et al. 2013 but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
- According to Nouioui et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of "Prescottia equi" (Magnusson 1923) Jones et al. 2013 but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
- According to Nouioui et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Corynebacterium equi Magnusson 1923 (Approved Lists 1980) but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
- According to Nouioui et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
- According to Nouioui et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Prescottella equi (Magnusson 1923) Sangal et al. 2022 but this is in conflict with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
- Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.
- Rejected name (Opinion 106). Publication: Arahal et al.. Judicial Opinion No. 111. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5197.
- Numerical phenetic, mycolic acid, fatty acid, and DNA homology studies indicate Corynebacterium hoagii (Morse 1912) Eberson 1918 (Approved Lists 1980) and Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) = Corynebacterium equi Magnusson 1923 (Approved Lists 1980) represent a single species. Publication: Collins MD, Cummins CS. Genus Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896, 350AL. In: Sneath PHA, Mair NS, Sharpe ME, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 2, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1986, p. 1266-1276.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

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

Assigned by: Eberson F. A bacteriologic study of the diphtheroid organisms with special reference to Hodgkin's disease. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1918; 23:1-42.

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