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

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pleu.ro.pneu.mo.ni.ae. Gr. fem. n. pleura, rib, side; N.L. fem. n. pneumonia, disease of the lungs; N.L. gen. fem. n. pleuropneumoniae, of pleuropneumonia

Gender: masculine

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

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D30030 Analyse FASTA

Effective 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 under the ICNP

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 under the ICNP
    Hemophilus pleuropneumoniae Shope 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • ❗ Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Haemophilus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 2". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Shope 1964: 1 Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "PV". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "t".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 191 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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.

Parent taxon: Haemophilus corrig. 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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