Name: Serratia ficaria Grimont et al. 1981

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fi.ca’ria. L. fem. adj. ficaria, of or belonging to figs

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 4024; ATCC 33105; CIP 79.23; DSM 4569; ICPB 4050; JCM 1241; LMG 7881; NBRC 102596; NCTC 12148

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ233428 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Grimont PAD, Grimont F, Starr MP. Serratia ficaria sp. nov., a bacterial species associated with Smyrna figs and the fig wasp Blastophaga psenes. Curr. Microbiol. 1979; 2:277-282.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 6. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1981; 31:215-218.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-Fraile et al. 2020 Garcia-Fraile P, Sproer C, Chesneau O, Criscuolo A, Lang E, Clermont D. Serratia vespertilionis (Garcia-Fraile et al. 2015) is a later heterotypic synonym of Serratia ficaria (Grimont et al. 1981). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1961-1962. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3583-3587.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 24 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Serratia Bizio 1823 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Grimont PAD, Grimont F, Starr MP. Serratia ficaria sp. nov., a bacterial species associated with Smyrna figs and the fig wasp Blastophaga psenes. Curr. Microbiol. 1979; 2:277-282.

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