Species ***Pseudomonas* *chlororaphis***

Name: Pseudomonas chlororaphis (Guignard and Sauvageau 1894) Bergey et al. 1930 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus chlororaphis" Guignard and Sauvageau 1894

Etymology: chlo.ro’ra.phis. Gr. masc. adj. chlôros, green; Gr. fem. n. rhaphis, a needle; N.L. fem. n. chlororaphis, a green needle

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … k^hlo-RO-ra-p^his, feminine

Type strain: ATCC 9446; CCUG 552; CCUG 552 B; CFBP 2132; CIP 63.22; DSM 50083; HAMBI 2011; IFO 3904; JCM 2778; LMG 5004; NBRC 3904; NCCB 76041; NCIB 9392; NCIMB 9392; NCTC 13002; VKM B-1246

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D84011 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 3rd ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1930.

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: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Bacillus chlororaphis" Guignard and Sauvageau 1894	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

Emendations:
- Peix et al. 2007 Peix A, Valverde A, Rivas R, Igual JM, Ramirez-Bahena MH, Mateos PF, Santa-Regina I, Rodriguez-Barrueco C, Martinez-Molina E, Velazquez E. Reclassification of Pseudomonas aurantiaca as a synonym of Pseudomonas chlororaphis and proposal of three subspecies, P. chlororaphis subsp. chlororaphis subsp. nov., P. chlororaphis subsp. aureofaciens subsp. nov., comb. nov. and P. chlororaphis subsp. aurantiaca subsp. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1286-1290. 🇪🇸 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1935-1936.
  Notes:
  - 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
  - 🫂 Emendation accompanied by a proposal regarding the synonymy of the species.
  - 🧍 In the paper by Peix et al. 2007, Pseudomonas chlororaphis (Guignard and Sauvageau 1894) Bergey et al. 1930 is cited as Pseudomonas chlororaphis (ex Guignard and Sauvageau 1894) Bergey et al. 1930.

Notes:
- ⏰ According to Johnson and Palleroni (1989), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Pseudomonas aureofaciens Kluyver 1956 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Johnson JL, Palleroni NJ. Deoxyribonucleic acid similarities among Pseudomonas species. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:230-235. 🇺🇸
- ⏰ According to Peix et al. (2007), this species is not an earlier heterotypic synonym of Pseudomonas aureofaciens Kluyver 1956 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Peix A, Valverde A, Rivas R, Igual JM, Ramirez-Bahena MH, Mateos PF, Santa-Regina I, Rodriguez-Barrueco C, Martinez-Molina E, Velazquez E. Reclassification of Pseudomonas aurantiaca as a synonym of Pseudomonas chlororaphis and proposal of three subspecies, P. chlororaphis subsp. chlororaphis subsp. nov., P. chlororaphis subsp. aureofaciens subsp. nov., comb. nov. and P. chlororaphis subsp. aurantiaca subsp. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1286-1290. 🇪🇸
- 😷 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 = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 486 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 other species in the genus.
- 🧍 A genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of the Pseudomonas fluorescens complex was conducted by Garrido-Sanz et al. (2016). Publication: Garrido-Sanz D, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Martin M, Rivilla R, Redondo-Nieto M. Genomic and Genetic Diversity within the Pseudomonas fluorescens Complex. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0150183. 🇪🇸

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. aurantiaca (Nakhimovskaya 1948) Peix et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. aureofaciens (Kluyver 1956) Peix et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. chlororaphis (Guignard and Sauvageau 1894) Peix et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. phenazini Chi et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. piscium Burr et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudomonas Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 3rd ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1930.

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Species Pseudomonas chlororaphis

Species ***Pseudomonas* *chlororaphis***