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 strain: 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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Enterobacter hoffmannii" (Sutton et al. 2018) Wu et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this subspecies. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of the species itself.

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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Record number: 797971