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.

Gender: feminine

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

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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

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 = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 182 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.
  • 🧍 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