Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.24546

Name

Kosakonia Brady et al. 2013 emend. Gu et al. 2014

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Kosakonia cowanii (Inoue et al. 2001) Brady et al. 2013
species	Kosakonia arachidis (Madhaiyan et al. 2010) Brady et al. 2013
species	Kosakonia oryzae (Peng et al. 2009) Brady et al. 2013
species	Kosakonia oryzendophytica (Hardoim et al. 2015) Li et al. 2016
species	Kosakonia oryziphila (Hardoim et al. 2015) Li et al. 2016
species	Kosakonia pseudosacchari Kämpfer et al. 2018
species	Kosakonia quasisacchari Wang et al. 2019
species	Kosakonia radicincitans (Kämpfer et al. 2005) Brady et al. 2013
species	Kosakonia sacchari (Zhu et al. 2013) Gu et al. 2014

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Kosakonia Brady et al. 2013 emend. Gu et al. 2014

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 genus Kosakonia Brady et al. 2013 emend. Gu et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.24546.

Source File

10.1601/tx.24546.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 27, 2019.

References

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Brady C, Cleenwerck I, Venter S, Coutinho T, De Vos P. Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): Proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:309-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2013.03.005 [PubMed].
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Gu CT, Li CY, Yang LJ, Huo GH. Enterobacter xiangfangensis sp. nov., isolated from Chinese traditional sourdough and reclassification of Enterobacter sacchari Zhu et al. 2013 as Kosakonia sacchari comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2650-2656. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.064709-0 [PubMed].
Wang C, Wu W, Wei L, Feng Y, Kang M, Xie Y, Zong Z. Kosakonia quasisacchari sp. nov. recovered from human wound secretion in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3155-3160. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003606 [PubMed].