Name: Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae corrig. Shope 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: Gr. n. pleura, rib, side; N.L. fem. n. pneumonia, disease of the lungs; N.L. gen. n. pleuropneumoniae, of pleuropneumonia

Gender: masculine

Type strains: 4074; ATCC 27088; CCM 5869; CCUG 12837; CCUG 41656; CCUG 43096; CIP 100916; DSM 13472; HK 405; NCTC 12370; Shope 4074

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: M75074 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Shope RE. PORCINE CONTAGIOUS PLEUROPNEUMONIA. I. EXPERIMENTAL TRANSMISSION, ETIOLOGY, AND PATHOLOGY. J Exp Med 1964; 119:357-368.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (Shope 1964) Pohl et al. 1983

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (Shope 1964) Pohl et al. 1983	homotypic synonym, validly published

• Notes:
  • On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, this nomenclatural name is incorrectly cited as Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae (Matthews and Pattison 1961) (sic) Shope 1964 [1]. Publication: Hill LR, Skerman VBD, Sneath PHA. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names edited for the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:508-511.
  • This corrigendum has been omitted from the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Amended Edition) [2]. Publication: Euzéby JP. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and to the amended edition of the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:1271-1272.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "t".

Parent taxon: Haemophilus Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Shope RE. PORCINE CONTAGIOUS PLEUROPNEUMONIA. I. EXPERIMENTAL TRANSMISSION, ETIOLOGY, AND PATHOLOGY. J Exp Med 1964; 119:357-368.

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