Name: Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. capsici Oh et al. 2016

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: cap’si.ci. N.L. gen. neut. n. capsici, referring to Capsicum, the genus name of pepper

Gender: masculine

Type strain: KACC 184448; KACC 18448; LMG 29047; PF008

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX373437 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Oh EJ, Bae C, Lee HB, Hwang IS, Lee HI, Yea MC, Yim KO, Lee S, Heu S, Cha JS, et al. Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. capsici subsp. nov., causing bacterial canker disease in pepper. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4065-4070.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Clavibacter capsici (Oh et al. 2016) Li et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Clavibacter capsici (Oh et al. 2016) Li et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank
    Clavibacter capsici (Oh et al. 2016) Nouioui et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • ❗ Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. capsici is the correct name instead if this subspecies is regarded as a separate subspecies (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another subspecies whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate species Clavibacter michiganensis within a separate genus Clavibacter.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "p2".
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this subspecies was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
  • 🧍 In the protologue of the original description of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. capsici Oh et al. 2016, the KACC number of the type strain is mistakenly cited as KACC 184448 instead of KACC 18448. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Clavibacter michiganensis corrig. (Smith 1910) Davis et al. 1984

Assigned by: Oh EJ, Bae C, Lee HB, Hwang IS, Lee HI, Yea MC, Yim KO, Lee S, Heu S, Cha JS, et al. Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. capsici subsp. nov., causing bacterial canker disease in pepper. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4065-4070.

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Record number: 794623