Name: Xenorhabdus bovienii subsp. africana Machado et al. 2023

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: a.fri.ca’na. L. fem. adj. africana, African, pertaining to Africa

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCM 9244; CCOS 2015; XENO-1

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16S rRNA gene: ON497255 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Machado RAR, Bhat AH, Fallet P, Turlings TCJ, Kajuga J, Yan X, Toepfer S. Xenorhabdus bovienii subsp. africana subsp. nov., isolated from Steinernema africanum entomopathogenic nematodes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5795.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 73, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5937.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

• Notes:
  • 🙆 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 other species in the genus.

Parent taxon: Xenorhabdus bovienii (Akhurst 1983) Akhurst and Boemare 1993

Assigned by: Machado RAR, Bhat AH, Fallet P, Turlings TCJ, Kajuga J, Yan X, Toepfer S. Xenorhabdus bovienii subsp. africana subsp. nov., isolated from Steinernema africanum entomopathogenic nematodes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5795.

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Record number: 37727