Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Corynebacterium ramonii

Name: Corynebacterium ramonii Crestani et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ra.mo.n’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. ramonii, from Gaston Ramon (30th Sep 1886 to 8th Jun 1963), a French veterinarian and biologist who invented the diphtheria toxoid vaccine, enabling mass vaccination against diphtheria, as well as the tetanus toxoid vaccine. He was also the first promoter of combined vaccines, and the inventor of the flocculation-based dosage of antisera

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCUG 76912; CIP 112226; FRC0011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: OX444692 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Crestani C, Arcari G, Landier A, Passet V, Garnier D, Bremont S, Armatys N, Carmi-Leroy A, Toubiana J, Badell E, et al. Corynebacterium ramonii sp. nov., a novel toxigenic member of the Corynebacterium diphtheriae species complex. Res Microbiol 2023; 174:104113.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 216. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6229.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Crestani C, Arcari G, Landier A, Passet V, Garnier D, Bremont S, Armatys N, Carmi-Leroy A, Toubiana J, Badell E, et al. Corynebacterium ramonii sp. nov., a novel toxigenic member of the Corynebacterium diphtheriae species complex. Res Microbiol 2023; 174:104113.

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Record number: 46575
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