Name: Staphylococcus succinus subsp. succinus (Lambert et al. 1998) Place et al. 2003

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov. (rule 40d)

Basonym: Staphylococcus succinus Lambert et al. 1998

Etymology: suc.ci’nus. L. masc. adj. succinus, of amber

Gender: masculine

Type strain: AMG-D1; ATCC 700337; CCUG 43571; DSM 14617

See detailed strain information at

Effective publication: Place RB, Hiestand D, Burri S, Teuber M. Staphylococcus succinus subsp. casei subsp. nov., a dominant isolate from a surface ripened cheese. Syst Appl Microbiol 2002; 25:353-359.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 89. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1-2.

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 succinus subsp. casei Place et al. 2003 according to rule 40d. Publication: Place RB, Hiestand D, Burri S, Teuber M. Staphylococcus succinus subsp. casei subsp. nov., a dominant isolate from a surface ripened cheese. Syst Appl Microbiol 2002; 25:353-359.
  • ❗ Staphylococcus succinus subsp. succinus 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 succinus within a separate genus Staphylococcus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, Lambert et al. 1998, 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 succinus Lambert et al. 1998

Assigned by: Place RB, Hiestand D, Burri S, Teuber M. Staphylococcus succinus subsp. casei subsp. nov., a dominant isolate from a surface ripened cheese. Syst Appl Microbiol 2002; 25:353-359.

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