Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6614

Name

Propionibacterium acnes (Gilchrist 1900) Douglas and Gunter 1946 (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	Propionibacterium Orla-Jensen 1909 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Scholz and Kilian 2016

Members

subspecies	Propionibacterium acnes acnes Dekio et al. 2015
subspecies	Propionibacterium acnes defendens McDowell et al. 2016
subspecies	Propionibacterium acnes elongatum Dekio et al. 2015

Type Strain

representative organism

ATCC 6919^T (=CIP 53.117 =NRRL B-4224 =CCUG 1794 =VKM Ac-1450 =DSM 1897 =JCM 6425 =NCTC 737 =LMG 16711)

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 Propionibacteriales (Rainey et al. 1997) Patrick and McDowell 2015 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
family Propionibacteriaceae Delwiche 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Propionibacterium Orla-Jensen 1909 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Scholz and Kilian 2016
species Propionibacterium acnes (Gilchrist 1900) Douglas and Gunter 1946 (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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.19132	HL083PA2
10.1601/ex.19129	HL038PA1
10.1601/ex.20913	JCVI192
10.1601/ex.19128	HL060PA1
10.1601/ex.19140	HL005PA1
10.1601/ex.19110	HL053PA1
10.1601/ex.16167	J139
10.1601/ex.19134	HL025PA2
10.1601/ex.19142	HL005PA3
10.1601/ex.19147	HL030PA1
10.1601/ex.19159	HL002PA1
10.1601/ex.19120	HL074PA1
10.1601/ex.16165	B9.2
10.1601/ex.16170	SK137 (=BEI HM-122)
10.1601/ex.19123	HL110PA3
10.1601/ex.19130	HL092PA1
10.1601/ex.19143	HL005PA4
10.1601/ex.16166	B9.4
10.1601/ex.19109	HL020PA1
10.1601/ex.19113	HL013PA1
10.1601/ex.19146	HL050PA3
10.1601/ex.19168	HL037PA3
10.1601/ex.19137	HL086PA1
10.1601/ex.19163	HL056PA1
10.1601/ex.17340
10.1601/ex.19160	HL002PA2
10.1601/ex.19145	HL050PA2
10.1601/ex.19125	HL087PA1
10.1601/ex.19114	HL013PA2
10.1601/ex.19138	HL046PA1
10.1601/ex.19165	HL082PA2
10.1601/ex.19153	HL044PA1
10.1601/ex.19139	HL046PA2
10.1601/ex.19151	HL036PA2
10.1601/ex.19112	HL045PA1
10.1601/ex.19124	HL110PA4
10.1601/ex.19144	HL050PA1
10.1601/ex.19117	HL043PA2
10.1601/ex.19119	HL072PA2
10.1601/ex.16158	J49
10.1601/ex.19127	HL087PA3
10.1601/ex.22267	P08
10.1601/ex.16168	J165
10.1601/ex.19121	HL110PA1
10.1601/ex.19131	HL083PA1
10.1601/ex.19162	HL007PA1
10.1601/ex.16159	B57.1
10.1601/ex.19354	SK187
10.1601/ex.19133	HL025PA1
10.1601/ex.19115	HL078PA1
10.1601/ex.19126	HL087PA2
10.1601/ex.16160	B58.8
10.1601/ex.19156	HL027PA2
10.1601/ex.19164	HL082PA1
10.1601/ex.19116	HL043PA1
10.1601/ex.19167	HL037PA2
10.1601/ex.19166	HL037PA1
10.1601/ex.19136	HL059PA2
10.1601/ex.16161
10.1601/ex.19111	HL053PA2
10.1601/ex.16171	SK182
10.1601/ex.19157	HL063PA1
10.1601/ex.19158	HL063PA2
10.1601/ex.19118	HL072PA1
10.1601/ex.19149	HL001PA1
10.1601/ex.19141	HL005PA2
10.1601/ex.19122	HL110PA2
10.1601/ex.19161	HL002PA3
10.1601/ex.19150	HL036PA1
10.1601/ex.19135	HL059PA1
10.1601/ex.19155	HL027PA1
10.1601/ex.19152	HL036PA3
10.1601/ex.19154	HL067PA1
10.1601/ex.16162	B66.8
10.1601/ex.17339
10.1601/ex.20912	266
10.1601/ex.16169	KPA171202 (=DSM 16379)
10.1601/ex.19148	HL030PA2

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Propionibacterium acnes (Gilchrist 1900) Douglas and Gunter 1946 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6614.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6614.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 5, 2019.

References

Douglas HC, Gunter SE. The Taxonomic Position of Corynebacterium acnes. J Bacteriol 1946; 52:15-23. [PubMed].
Dekio I, Culak R, Misra R, Gaulton T, Fang M, Sakamoto M, Ohkuma M, Oshima K, Hattori M, Klenk HP, Rajendram D, Gharbia SE, Shah HN. Dissecting the taxonomic heterogeneity within Propionibacterium acnes: proposal for Propionibacterium acnes subsp. acnes subsp. nov. and Propionibacterium acnes subsp. elongatum subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4776-4787. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000648 [PubMed].
McDowell A, Barnard E, Liu J, Li H, Patrick S. Proposal to reclassify Propionibacterium acnes type I as Propionibacterium acnes subsp. acnes subsp. nov. and Propionibacterium acnes type II as Propionibacterium acnes subsp. defendens subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5358-5365. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001521 [PubMed].