Name: Providencia sneebia Juneja and Lazzaro 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: snee’bi.a. N.L. fem. adj. sneebia, of University SNEEB, a series of informal academic gatherings at Cornell University where properties of these bacteria were extensively discussed

Gender: feminine

Type strain: A; ATCC BAA-1589; DSM 19967

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM038003 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Juneja P, Lazzaro BP. Providencia sneebia sp. nov. and Providencia burhodogranariea sp. nov., isolated from wild Drosophila melanogaster. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1108-1111.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1853-1855.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "n".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Providencia Ewing 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Juneja P, Lazzaro BP. Providencia sneebia sp. nov. and Providencia burhodogranariea sp. nov., isolated from wild Drosophila melanogaster. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1108-1111.

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