Taxonomy ID: 1717

Rank: species

Scientific name: Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Authority: "Mycobacterium diphtheriae" (Kruse 1886) Krasil'nikov 1941; "Microsporon diphtheriticum" Klebs 1883; "Pacinia loeffleri" Trevisan 1889; Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Lehmann and Neumann 1896; "Bacillus diphtheriae" Kruse in Flugge 1886; Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018; "Bacterium diphtheriae" (Kruse 1886) Migula 1900; "Microsporon diphthericum" (sic) Klebs 1875

Synonym: Bacterium diphtheriae; Bacillus diphtheriae; Mycobacterium diphtheriae; Microsporon diphtheriticum; Microsporon diphthericum; Pacinia loeffleri