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

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: 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

Gender: masculine

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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: 1

• Notes:
  • This subspecies was automatically created by the valid publication of Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. urealyticus 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 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 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.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".

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