Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6189

Name

Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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	Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Baek et al. 2018

Members

subspecies	Corynebacterium diphtheriae diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Tagini et al. 2019
subspecies	Corynebacterium diphtheriae lausannense Tagini et al. 2019

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 44123^T (=CIP 100721 =NCTC 11397 =ATCC 27010)

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
family Corynebacteriaceae Lehmann and Neumann 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Baek et al. 2018
species Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.20901	FRC0154
10.1601/ex.18543	HC02
10.1601/ex.18545	241
10.1601/ex.18547	PW8
10.1601/ex.18541	HC04
10.1601/ex.18540	INCA 402
10.1601/ex.18549	31A
10.1601/ex.18539	VA01
10.1601/ex.17304
10.1601/ex.15522	CD 97/255 (=NCTC 13129)
10.1601/ex.18542	HC03
10.1601/ex.18548	C7 (beta)
10.1601/ex.18538	BH8
10.1601/ex.18544	HC01
10.1601/ex.18546	CDCE 8392

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6189.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6189.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 26, 2018.

References

Lehmann KB, Neumann R. Atlas und Grundriss der Bakteriologie und Lehrbuch der speziellen bakteriologischen Diagnostik, First Edition, J.F. Lehmann, München, 1896, p. 1-448.
Tagini F, Pillonel T, Croxatto A, Bertelli C, Koutsokera A, Lovis A, Greub G. Distinct Genomic Features Characterize Two Clades of Corynebacterium diphtheriae: Proposal of Corynebacterium diphtheriae Subsp. diphtheriae Subsp. nov. and Corynebacterium diphtheriae Subsp. lausannense Subsp. nov. Front. Microbio. 2018; 9:1743-1743. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01743 [PubMed].