Name: Pseudostreptobacillus hongkongensis (Woo et al. 2014) Eisenberg et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Streptobacillus hongkongensis Woo et al. 2014

Etymology: hong.kong.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. hongkongensis, of or belonging to Hong Kong, the place where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 26322; HKU33; JCM 18691; NCTC 13659

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JQ087389 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Eisenberg T, Glaeser SP, Blom J, Kampfer P. Proposal to reclassify Streptobacillus hongkongensis into a novel genus as Pseudostreptobacillus hongkongensis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2366-2368.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Streptobacillus hongkongensis Woo et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Pseudostreptobacillus Eisenberg et al. 2020. Publication: Eisenberg T, Glaeser SP, Blom J, Kampfer P. Proposal to reclassify Streptobacillus hongkongensis into a novel genus as Pseudostreptobacillus hongkongensis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2366-2368.
  • 😷 The taxon name shown here has no risk group assigned, but is the homotypic synonym of Streptobacillus hongkongensis Woo et al. 2014, which has a risk group (Germany) above 1. This may require that the name shown here is not treated as the correct name for practical purposes.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Pseudostreptobacillus Eisenberg et al. 2020

Assigned by: Eisenberg T, Glaeser SP, Blom J, Kampfer P. Proposal to reclassify Streptobacillus hongkongensis into a novel genus as Pseudostreptobacillus hongkongensis gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2366-2368.

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Record number: 10854