Name: Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. noenieputensis Ferreira et al. 2013

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: no.e.ni.e.put.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. noenieputensis, of or belonging to the settlement Noenieput, close to the Namibian border in South Africa, the location of the farm Springbokvlei, the source of the nematode (Malan et al., 2013)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: AM7; ATCC BAA-2407; DSM 25462

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MK039084 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ferreira T, van Reenen C, Pages S, Tailliez P, Malan AP, Dicks LM. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. noenieputensis subsp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium associated with a novel Heterorhabditis species related to Heterorhabditis indica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1853-1858.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Photorhabdus noenieputensis (Ferreira et al. 2013) Machado et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Photorhabdus noenieputensis (Ferreira et al. 2013) Machado et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • ❗ Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. noenieputensis 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: Ferreira T, van Reenen C, Pages S, Tailliez P, Malan AP, Dicks LM. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. noenieputensis subsp. nov., a symbiotic bacterium associated with a novel Heterorhabditis species related to Heterorhabditis indica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1853-1858.

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Record number: 790781