Enterobacter

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Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Enterobacterales
Prokaryota Superregnum: Bacteria Phylum: Pseudomonadota Classis: Gammaproteobacteria Ordo: Enterobacterales

Familia: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Enterobacter
Species: E. aerogenes (Klebsiella mobilis resp. → Klebsiella aerogenes) – E. agglomerans (→ Pantoea agglomerans) – E. amnigenus (→ Lelliottia amnigena) – E. arachidis (→ Kosakonia arachidis) – E. asburiae – E. bugandensis – E. cancerogenus (Erwinia cancerogena) – E. cloacae – E. cowanii (→ Kosakonia cowanii) – E. dissolvens (E. cloacae subsp. dissolvens) – E. gergoviae (→ Pluralibacter gergoviae) – E. helveticus (→ Cronobacter helveticus) – E. hormaechei – E. intermedius (→ Kluyvera intermedia) – E. kobei – E. ludwigii – E. massiliensis – E. mori – E. muelleri – E. nimipressuralis (→ Lelliottia nimipressuralis) – E. oryzae (→ Kosakonia oryzae) – E. oryzendophyticus (→ Kosakonia oryzendophytica) – E. oryziphilus (→ Kosakonia oryziphila) – E. pulveris (→ Cronobacter pulveris) – E. pyrinus (→ Pluralibacter pyrinus) – E. radicincitans (→ Kosakonia radicincitans) – E. sacchari (→ Kosakonia sacchari) – E. sakazakii (→ Cronobacter sakazakii) – E. siamensis – E. soli – E. tabaci – E. taylorae (E. cancerogenus) – E. turicensis (→ Cronobacter zurichensis) – E. xiangfangensis

Many Enterobacter species are transferred to other genera (marked with →), but kept within this list as basonyms.

Name

Enterobacter Hormaeche & Edwards 1960 emend. Brady et al. 2013

Type species: E. cloacae
(Jordan 1890) Hormaeche & Edwards 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)

Name of the genus means an intestinal small rod.

Synonyms

“Cloaca” Castellani & Chalmers 1919
“Aerobacter” Hormaeche & Edwards 1958

References

Primary references

Castellani, A. & Chalmers, A.J. 1919. Manual of Tropical Medicine. London: Baillière; New York: W. Wood and Company. 3rd edition. 2436 pp. PDF Reference page.
Hormaeche, E. & Edwards, P.R. 1960. A proposed genus Enterobacter. International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy 10(2): 71–74. (1960-04-01.) DOI: 10.1099/0096266X-10-2-71 Reference page.
Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V. & Sneath, P.H.A. 1980. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 30(1): 225–420 (1980-01-01) DOI: 10.1099/00207713-30-1-225 Reference page.
Brady, C., Cleenwerck, I., Venter, S., Coutinho, T. & De Vos, P. 2013. 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. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 36(5): 309–319. (2013-07) DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.03.005 Reference page.

Links

European Nucleotide Archive

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