Name: Yersinia canariae Nguyen et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ca.na’ri.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. canariae, of Canaria in which the type strain was associated with travel to the Canary Islands, Canariae insulae

Gender: feminine

Type strain: LMG 31573; NCTC 14382; SRR7544370T

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MN434982 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nguyen SV, Greig DR, Hurley D, Donoghue O, Cao Y, McCabe E, Mitchell M, Schaffer K, Jenkins C, Fanning S. Yersinia canariae sp. nov., isolated from a human yersiniosis case. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2382-2387. 🇮🇪

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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.10501 (N = 2).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time 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 pathogenicity of the species itself.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative 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. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Yersinia van Loghem 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nguyen SV, Greig DR, Hurley D, Donoghue O, Cao Y, McCabe E, Mitchell M, Schaffer K, Jenkins C, Fanning S. Yersinia canariae sp. nov., isolated from a human yersiniosis case. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2382-2387. 🇮🇪

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/yersinia-canariaeCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 5910