Name: Photorhabdus temperata subsp. cinerea Tóth and Lakatos 2008

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: ci.ne’re.a. L. fem. adj. cinerea, resembling ashes, because this subspecies produces a grey pigment that colours the growing medium and infected insects

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 3107; DSM 19724; NCAIM B.02271

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU136626 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Toth T, Lakatos T. Photorhabdus temperata subsp. cinerea subsp. nov., isolated from Heterorhabditis nematodes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2579-2581.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:205-206.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Photorhabdus cinerea (Tóth and Lakatos 2008) Machado et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Photorhabdus cinerea (Tóth and Lakatos 2008) Machado et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • ❗ Photorhabdus temperata subsp. cinerea 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 temperata 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 temperata Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999

Assigned by: Toth T, Lakatos T. Photorhabdus temperata subsp. cinerea subsp. nov., isolated from Heterorhabditis nematodes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2579-2581.

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Record number: 786767