Name: Campylobacter fetus subsp. testudinum Fitzgerald et al. 2014

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: tes.tu’di.num. N.L. pl. n. Testudines, scientific name of an order to which turtles belong; L. gen. fem. pl. n. testudinum, of Testudines

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 03-427; ATCC BAA-2539; LMG 27499

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY621303 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Fitzgerald C, Tu ZC, Patrick M, Stiles T, Lawson AJ, Santovenia M, Gilbert MJ, van Bergen M, Joyce K, Pruckler J, et al. Campylobacter fetus subsp. testudinum subsp. nov., isolated from humans and reptiles. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2944-2948.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3923-3925.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08807 (N = 4).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Z".

Parent taxon: Campylobacter fetus (Smith and Taylor 1919) Sebald and Véron 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Fitzgerald C, Tu ZC, Patrick M, Stiles T, Lawson AJ, Santovenia M, Gilbert MJ, van Bergen M, Joyce K, Pruckler J, et al. Campylobacter fetus subsp. testudinum subsp. nov., isolated from humans and reptiles. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2944-2948.

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Record number: 792135