Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.11149

Names

Xenorhabdus nematophila corrig. (Poinar and Thomas 1965) Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980), Xenorhabdus nematophilus (sic) (Poinar and Thomas 1965) Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Xenorhabdus Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Akhurst 1983

Members

subspecies	Xenorhabdus nematophilus nematophilus (sic) (Poinar and Thomas 1965) Akhurst 1983
subspecies	Xenorhabdus nematophila beddingii corrig. Akhurst 1986
subspecies	Xenorhabdus nematophila poinarii corrig. Akhurst 1983
subspecies	Xenorhabdus nematophilus bovienii (sic) Akhurst 1983

Type Strain

representative organism

ATCC 19061^T (=DSM 3370)

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 Xenorhabdus Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Akhurst 1983
species Xenorhabdus nematophila corrig. (Poinar and Thomas 1965) Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Xenorhabdus nematophila corrig. (Poinar and Thomas 1965) Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) and Xenorhabdus nematophilus (sic) (Poinar and Thomas 1965) Thomas and Poinar 1979 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.11149.

Source File

10.1601/tx.11149.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 11, 2017.

References

Thomas GM, Poinar GO. Xenorhabdus gen. nov., a genus of entomopathogenic nematophilic bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1979; 29:352-360. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-29-4-352.
Akhurst RJ. Taxonomic study of Xenorhabdus, a genus of bacteria symbiotically associated with insect pathogenic nematodes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:38-45. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-33-1-38.
Akhurst R. Xenorhabdus nematophilus subsp. beddingii, Enterobacteriaceae: a new subspecies of bacteria mutualistically associated with entomopathogenic nematodes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1986; 36:454-457. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-36-3-454.