Name: Klebsiella indica Gujarati et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in’di.ca. L. fem. adj. indica, of or belonging to India, where the type strain was isolated from the outer wash of a tomato collected from the vegetable market in India

Pronunciation, gender: IN-di-ka, feminine

Type strain: JCM 33718; KACC 21384; MCC 2901; TOUT106

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16S rRNA gene: MK942857 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gujarati S, Chaudhari D, Hagir A, Khairnar M, Shouche Y, Rahi P. Klebsiella indica sp. nov., isolated from the surface of a tomato. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3278-3286. 🇮🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4421-4424.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 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.

Parent taxon: Klebsiella Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Gujarati S, Chaudhari D, Hagir A, Khairnar M, Shouche Y, Rahi P. Klebsiella indica sp. nov., isolated from the surface of a tomato. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3278-3286. 🇮🇳

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Record number: 7494