Subspecies Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. cohnii

Name: Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. cohnii (Schleifer and Kloos 1975) Kloos and Wolfshohl 1991

Category, proposed as: subspecies, subsp. nov. (rule 40d)

Basonym: Staphylococcus cohnii Schleifer and Kloos 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: coh’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. cohnii, of Cohn, named for Ferdinand Cohn, a German botanist and bacteriologist

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: sta-p^hy-lo-KOK-kus KOH-ni-i KOH-ni-i, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 29974; CCUG 35144; CCUG 6463; CCUG 7322; CIP 81.54; DSM 20260; JCM 2417; NCTC 11041; NRRL B-14756

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Valid publication: Kloos WE, Wolfshohl JF. Staphylococcus cohnii subspecies: Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. cohnii subsp. nov. and Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. urealyticum subsp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:284-289. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 41, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:581.

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 Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. ureilyticus corrig. Kloos and Wolfshohl 1991 according to rule 40d. Publication: Kloos WE, Wolfshohl JF. Staphylococcus cohnii subspecies: Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. cohnii subsp. nov. and Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. urealyticum subsp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:284-289. 🇺🇸
  • ❗ Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. cohnii 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 Staphylococcus cohnii within a separate genus Staphylococcus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "PIIC". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🙆 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 risk group of the species itself.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, Schleifer and Kloos 1975, 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: Staphylococcus cohnii Schleifer and Kloos 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Kloos WE, Wolfshohl JF. Staphylococcus cohnii subspecies: Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. cohnii subsp. nov. and Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. urealyticum subsp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:284-289. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 781181