Name: Photorhabdus asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica (Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999) Akhurst et al. 2004

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov. (rule 40d)

Basonym: Photorhabdus asymbiotica Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999

Etymology: a.sym.bi.o’ti.ca. N.L. fem. adj. asymbiotica, not symbiotic

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 3265-86; ATCC 43950; CIP 106331; DSM 15149

See detailed strain information at

Valid publication: Akhurst RJ, Boemare NE, Janssen PH, Peel MM, Alfredson DA, Beard CE. Taxonomy of Australian clinical isolates of the genus Photorhabdus and proposal of Photorhabdus asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica subsp. nov. and P. asymbiotica subsp. australis subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1301-1310.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym of its species (division into subspecies abandoned)

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 📠 This subspecies was automatically created by the valid publication of Photorhabdus asymbiotica subsp. australis Akhurst et al. 2004 according to rule 40d. Publication: Akhurst RJ, Boemare NE, Janssen PH, Peel MM, Alfredson DA, Beard CE. Taxonomy of Australian clinical isolates of the genus Photorhabdus and proposal of Photorhabdus asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica subsp. nov. and P. asymbiotica subsp. australis subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1301-1310.
  • ❗ Photorhabdus asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica 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 Photorhabdus asymbiotica within a separate genus Photorhabdus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999, was corrected according to the new Rule 40d. Publication: Garrity GM, Labeda DP, Oren A. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. XIIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2775-2780.

Parent taxon: Photorhabdus asymbiotica Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999

Assigned by: Akhurst RJ, Boemare NE, Janssen PH, Peel MM, Alfredson DA, Beard CE. Taxonomy of Australian clinical isolates of the genus Photorhabdus and proposal of Photorhabdus asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica subsp. nov. and P. asymbiotica subsp. australis subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1301-1310.

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Record number: 779537