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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Corynebacterium occultum

Name: Corynebacterium occultum Schaffert et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: oc.cul’tum. L. neut. part. adj. occultum, hidden, as it was hidden among the larger colonies of C. kalinowskii and C. comes in the initial colony

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 2039; DSM 110642; LMG 31803

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MN714230 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: 20299
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