Name: Serratia Bizio 1823 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ser.ra’ti.a. N.L. fem. n. Serratia, named after Serafino Serrati, an Italian physicist

Gender: feminine (stem: Serrati-)

Type species: Serratia marcescens Bizio 1823 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Bizio B. Lettera di Bartolomeo Bizio al chiarissimo canonico Angelo Bellani sopra il fenomeno della polenta porporina. Biblioteca Italiana o sia Giornale di Letteratura, Scienze e Arti (Anno VIII) 1823; 30:275-295.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the tribe Serratieae Bergey et al. 1939 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Bergey DH, Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens (eds) AP. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 5th ed. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1939.
  • Bergey et al. (1923) assigned this genus to the tribe "Chromobactereae". Publication: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1923.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • Breed et al. (1948) assigned this genus to the tribe "Serrateae". Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the tribe Serratieae Bergey et al. 1939 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this genus to the subkingdom "Eubacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Seratia"; "Serracia"; "Serraeia"; "Serrafia"; "Serraiia"; "Serralia"; "Serratie"; "Serratiu"; "Serratta"; "Serrazia"; "Serretia"; "Serrntia"; "Serrratia"; "Serrutia"; "Servatia"; "Ssrratia"; "Strratia".
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Holmes B, Farmer Iii JJ. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Enterobacteriaceae. Minutes of the meetings, 7 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009; 59:2643-2645.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kaempfer and Glaeser (2016). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04596 (N = 2).
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 25; LMG: 19; ATCC: 15; CIP: 15; CCUG: 14; JCM: 12; NCTC: 12; NBRC: 8; KCTC: 4; CGMCC: 3.
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SER" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
  • See also Grimont et al. (1977). Publication: Grimont PA, Grimont F, De Rosnay HL. Taxonomy of the genus Serratia. J Gen Microbiol 1977; 98:39-66.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 23
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 25
Total number of child taxa: 34

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Serratia aquatilis Kämpfer and Glaeser 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia bockelmannii Cho et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Serratia bozhouensis" Shang et al. 2017	not validly published
    "Serratia corallina" Bergey et al. 1923	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    "Serratia cutirubra" Lochhead 1934	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    Serratia entomophila Grimont et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia ficaria Grimont et al. 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia fonticola Gavini et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia glossinae Geiger et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Serratia grimesii Grimont et al. 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia inhibens Hennessy et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia liquefaciens (Grimes and Hennerty 1931) Bascomb et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Serratia liquifaciens" Sluss and Reichert 1984	not validly published
    Serratia marcescens Bizio 1823 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia marinorubra ZoBell and Upham 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Serratia microhaemolytica Wang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Serratia multitudinisentens" Lim et al. 2015	not validly published
    Serratia myotis García-Fraile et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia nematodiphila Zhang et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia nevei Cho et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia odorifera Grimont et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia oryzae Zhang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia plymuthica (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Breed et al. 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia proteamaculans (Paine and Stansfield 1919) Grimont et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia quinivora (Grimont et al. 1983) Ashelford et al. 2002	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Serratia quinivorans corrig. (Grimont et al. 1983) Ashelford et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia rhizosphaerae Son et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Serratia rhodnii" Hozien et al. 1997	not validly published
    Serratia rubidaea (Stapp 1940) Ewing et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Serratia surfactantfaciens" Su et al. 2016	not validly published
    "Candidatus Serratia symbiotica" Moran et al. 2005	not validly published
    Serratia symbiotica Sabri et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia ureilytica Bhadra et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Serratia vespertilionis García-Fraile et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Yersiniaceae Adeolu et al. 2016

Assigned by: Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599.

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