Name: Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. hoffmannii Sutton et al. 2018

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: hoff.mann’i.i N.L. gen. masc. n. hoffmannii, in honor of Harald Hoffmann, a German microbiologist who helped elucidate the phylogenetic structure of the E. cloacae complex in particular the subspecies of E. hormaechei

Gender: masculine

Type strains: DSM 14563; EN-114; LMG 30171

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CP017186 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sutton GG, Brinkac LM, Clarke TH, Fouts DE. Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. hoffmannii subsp. nov., Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. xiangfangensis comb. nov., Enterobacter roggenkampii sp. nov., and Enterobacter muelleri is a later heterotypic synonym of Enterobacter asburiae based on computational analysis of sequenced Enterobacter genomes. F1000Res 2018; 7:521.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 184. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3379-3393.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Enterobacter hormaechei O'Hara et al. 1990

Assigned by: Sutton GG, Brinkac LM, Clarke TH, Fouts DE. Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. hoffmannii subsp. nov., Enterobacter hormaechei subsp. xiangfangensis comb. nov., Enterobacter roggenkampii sp. nov., and Enterobacter muelleri is a later heterotypic synonym of Enterobacter asburiae based on computational analysis of sequenced Enterobacter genomes. F1000Res 2018; 7:521.

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