Name: Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. caribbeanensis Tailliez et al. 2010

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: ca.rib.be.an.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. caribbeanensis, of or belonging to the Caribbean islands (Guadeloupe), the source of the nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CIP 109949; DSM 22391; HG29

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU930345 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tailliez P, Laroui C, Ginibre N, Paule A, Pages S, Boemare N. Phylogeny of Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus based on universally conserved protein-coding sequences and implications for the taxonomy of these two genera. Proposal of new taxa: X. vietnamensis sp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. caribbeanensis subsp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. hainanensis subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp. khanii subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp. tasmaniensis subsp. nov., and the reclassification of P. luminescens subsp. thracensis as P. temperata subsp. thracensis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1921-1937.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2511-2512.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Photorhabdus caribbeanensis (Tailliez et al. 2010) Machado et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Photorhabdus caribbeanensis (Tailliez et al. 2010) Machado et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • ❗ Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. caribbeanensis 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 luminescens within a separate genus Photorhabdus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "n".

Parent taxon: Photorhabdus luminescens (Thomas and Poinar 1979) Boemare et al. 1993

Assigned by: Tailliez P, Laroui C, Ginibre N, Paule A, Pages S, Boemare N. Phylogeny of Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus based on universally conserved protein-coding sequences and implications for the taxonomy of these two genera. Proposal of new taxa: X. vietnamensis sp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. caribbeanensis subsp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. hainanensis subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp. khanii subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp. tasmaniensis subsp. nov., and the reclassification of P. luminescens subsp. thracensis as P. temperata subsp. thracensis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1921-1937.

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