Name: Serratia plymuthica (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Breed et al. 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacterium plymuthicum" Lehmann and Neumann 1896

Etymology: ply.mu’thi.ca. N.L. fem. adj. plymuthica, pertaining to Plymouth, UK.

Pronunciation, gender: ply-MU-t^hi-ka, feminine

Type strain: ATCC 183; CCUG 14509; CIP 103239; DSM 4540; JCM 1244; LMG 7886; NBRC 102599; NCTC 12961

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ233433 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948.

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: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Bacterium plymuthicum" Lehmann and Neumann 1896	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - 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 = 1, note = "PIIC". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 198 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 species itself.
  • 🧍 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 (Reading) 2022; 168:0.
  • 🧍 On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, this nomenclatural name is incorrectly cited as Serratia plymuthica (Dyar 1895) Bergey et al. 1923 (sic). 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.

Parent taxon: Serratia Bizio 1823 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948.

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Record number: 780882