Hello James,

The paper can be found here: http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/60/1/44.full.pdf

In it, the authors state:

"Moreover, whereas the name [Actinobacillus] succinogenes was validly published by Guettler et al. (1999), ‘Mannheimia succiniciproducens’ has no standing in nomenclature (http://www.bacterio. cict.fr) and the only representative strain of this species, strain MBEL55E, is a patent strain and not publicly available (Lee et al., 2002). This species therefore still awaits proper description and taxonomic classification."

Kuhnert, Peter, et al. "Basfia Succiniciproducens Gen. Nov., Sp. Nov., a New Member of the Family Pasteurellaceae Isolated from Bovine Rumen."

Maximilian,

I saw that paper - but since it gave a different species name (and strain number) I was unsure if they were the same (I confess, I did not read it thoroughly at all). Thanks, I'll pull it up. Interestingly, the strain that they report is patented also.

James

Hi James,

just came accross this entry (a little bit late, I know). Basfia succiniciproducens is the official and validated name of what was improperly called "Mannheimia succiniciproducens". The type strains as well as other representative isolates from the publication are publicly available (see www.ccug.se or www.dsmz.de). Properly naming this bacterium and make it accessible was my motivation for this taxonomic study.

Peter