Species ***Corynebacterium* *stationis***

Name: Corynebacterium stationis (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Bernard et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Achromobacter stationis" ZoBell and Upham 1944

Etymology: sta.ti.o’nis. L. gen. fem. n. stationis, of a fixed position

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ko-ry-ne-bak-TE-ri-um sta-ti-O-nis, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 14403; CCUG 43497; CIP 104228; DSM 20302; IFO 12144; JCM 11611; NBRC 12144; VKM B-1228

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ172667 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bernard KA, Wiebe D, Burdz T, Reimer A, Ng B, Singh C, Schindle S, Pacheco AL. Assignment of Brevibacterium stationis (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Breed 1953 to the genus Corynebacterium, as Corynebacterium stationis comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Corynebacterium to include isolates that can alkalinize citrate. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:874-879. 🇨🇦

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1480-1481.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Brevibacterium stationis (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Achromobacter stationis" ZoBell and Upham 1944	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 26 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
- 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). 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. 🇩🇪

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

Assigned by: Bernard KA, Wiebe D, Burdz T, Reimer A, Ng B, Singh C, Schindle S, Pacheco AL. Assignment of Brevibacterium stationis (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Breed 1953 to the genus Corynebacterium, as Corynebacterium stationis comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Corynebacterium to include isolates that can alkalinize citrate. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:874-879. 🇨🇦

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Species Corynebacterium stationis

Species ***Corynebacterium* *stationis***