Klebsiella

Taxonomy ID: 570 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:570)

current name

Klebsiella  Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) in [Skerman VBD et al. (1980)]

homotypic synonym:

Klebsiella  Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Drancourt et al. 2001 , emended name  ¹⁾

Klebsiella  Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Carter et al. 1999 , emended name  ²⁾

Klebsiella  Trevisan 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ma et al. 2021 , emended name  ³⁾ in  in  [Ma Y et al. (2021)] , [List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 36 (2022)]

NCBI BLAST name: enterobacteria
Rank: genus
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

"Hyalococcus"  Schroeter 1886 , effective name  ⁴⁾

heterotypic synonym

"Donovania"  Anderson et al. 1944 , effective name  ⁵⁾

heterotypic synonym

Calymmatobacterium  Aragão and Vianna 1913 (Approved Lists 1980) in [Skerman VBD et al. (1980)]

heterotypic synonym

Raoultella  Drancourt et al. 2001

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae

Notes:

• 1) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.
• 2) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.
• 3) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.
• 4) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
• 5) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).
• 6) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.

Comments and References:

Skerman VBD et al. (1980) Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names." Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420.

Ma Y et al. (2021) , Pubmed: abstract Ma, Y., Wu, X., Li, S., Tang, L., Chen, M., and An, Q. "Proposal for reunification of the genus Raoultella with the genus Klebsiella and reclassification of Raoultella electrica as Klebsiella electrica comb. nov." Res. Microbiol. (2021) 172(6):103851. [Corrigendum: Res. Microbiol. (2022) 173(6-7):103924.]

List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 36 (2022) , Pubmed: abstract Oren, A., and Garrity, G. "Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 36." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2022) 72(7):005413.

Skerman VBD et al. (1980) Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names." Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420.

Brady C et al. (2024) Brady, C., Crampton, B., Kaur, S., Maddock, D., Kile, H., Arnold, D., and Denman, S. "Two novel Raoultella species associated with bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts, Raoultella scottia sp. nov. and Raoultella lignicola sp. nov." Front. Microbiol. (2024) 15:1386923.

List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 41 (2025) , Pubmed: abstract Oren, A., and Göker, M. "Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion no. 41." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2025) 75(1):006561.

Klebsiella (LPSN link)

Brisse S & Verhoef J (2001) Brisse, S., and Verhoef, J. "Phylogenetic diversity of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella oxytoca clinical isolates revealed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA, gyrA and parC genes sequencing and automated ribotyping." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2001) 51:915-924.

Anderson K et al. (1945) Anderson, K., de Monbreun, W., and Goodpasture, E. "An etiologic consideration of Donovania granulomatis cultivated from granuloma inguinale (three cases) in embryonic egg yolk." J. Exp. Med. (1945) 81:25-40. [No PubMed record available.]

Boye K & Hansen DS (2003) Boye, K., and Hansen, D.S. "Sequencing of 16S rDNA of Klebsiella: taxonomic relations within the genus and to other Enterobacteriaceae." Int. J. Med. Microbiol. (2003) 292:495-503.

Carter JS et al. (1999) Carter, J.S., Bowden, F.J., Bastian, I., Myers, G.M., Sriprakash, K.S., and Kemp, D.J. "Phylogenetic evidence for reclassification of Calymmatobacterium granulomatis as Klebsiella granulomatis comb. nov." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1999) 49:1695-1700.

Drancourt M et al. (2001) Drancourt, M., Bollet, C., Carta, A., and Rousselier, P. "Phylogenetic analyses of Klebsiella species delineate Klebsiella and Raoultella gen. nov., with description of Raoultella ornithinolytica comb. nov., Raoultella terrigena comb. nov. and Raoultella planticola comb. nov." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2001) 51:925-932.

Schroeter J (1886) Schroeter, J. "1885-1889." In: F. Cohn, Kryptogamenflora von Schlesien. Bd.3, Heft 3, Pilze J.U. Kern's Verlag, Breslau, pp. 1-814. [No PubMed record available.]

Ma Y et al. (2021) Ma, Y., Wu, X., Li, S., Tang, L., Chen, M., and An, Q. "Proposal for reunification of the genus Raoultella with the genus Klebsiella and reclassification of Raoultella electrica as Klebsiella electrica comb. nov." Res. Microbiol. (2021) 172(6):103851.

Aragao H & Vianna G (1913) Aragão, H., and Vianna, G. "Pesquizas sobre o Granuloma venereo. (Untersuchungen ueber das Branuloma venereum)." Mem. Inst. Oswalo Cruz. (1913) 5:211-238. [No PubMed record available.]

Trevisan V (1885) Trevisan, V. "Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi di Batteriaceae [Characteristics of some new genera of Bacteriaceae]." Atti. Accad. Fis.-Med.-Stat. Milano (Ser 4) (1885) 3:92-106. [No PubMed record available.]

Calymmatobacterium (LPSN link)

Raoultella (LPSN link)