Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10948

Name

Photorhabdus luminescens (Thomas and Poinar 1979) Boemare et al. 1993 emend. Machado et al. 2019

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Photorhabdus Boemare et al. 1993

Members

subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens akhurstii Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens caribbeanensis Tailliez et al. 2010
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens hainanensis Tailliez et al. 2010
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens kayaii Hazir et al. 2004
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens kleinii An and Grewal 2011
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens laumondii Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens luminescens (Thomas and Poinar 1979) Fischer-Le Saux et al. 1999
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens mexicana Machado et al. 2019
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens namnaonensis Glaeser et al. 2017
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens noenieputensis Ferreira et al. 2013
subspecies	Photorhabdus luminescens thracensis Hazir et al. 2004

Type Strain

representative organism

Hb^T (=DSM 3368 =ATCC 29999)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Enterobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Adeolu et al. 2016
family Morganellaceae Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Photorhabdus Boemare et al. 1993
species Photorhabdus luminescens (Thomas and Poinar 1979) Boemare et al. 1993 emend. Machado et al. 2019

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Photorhabdus luminescens (Thomas and Poinar 1979) Boemare et al. 1993 emend. Machado et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10948.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10948.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 25, 2019.

References

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