known species of symbiotic bacterial genus Photorhabdus associated with a nematode genus Heterorhabditis.

Identification based on colony morphology and molecular techniques

1. Photorhabdus luminescens (Thomas and Poinar 1979) Boemare et al. 1993
2. P. temperata
3. P. luminescens subsp. luminescens subsp. nov., Fischer-Le Saux, Viallard, Brunel, Normand & Boemare, 1999
4. P. luminescens subsp. akhurstii subsp. nov., Fischer-Le Saux, Viallard, Brunel, Normand & Boemare, 1999
5. P. luminescens subsp. kayaii subsp. nov., Hazir, Stackebrandt, Lang, Schumann, Ehlers & Keskin, 2004
6. P. luminescens subsp. laumondii subsp. nov., Fischer-Le Saux, Viallard, Brunel, Normand & Boemare, 1999
7. P. temperata sp. nov., Fischer-Le Saux, Viallard, Brunel, Normand & Boemare, 1999
8. P. temperata subsp. temperata subsp. nov., Fischer-Le Saux, Viallard, Brunel, Normand & Boemare, 1999
9. P. luminescens subsp. thracensis subsp. nov., Hazir, Stackebrandt, Lang, Schumann, Ehlers & Keskin, 2004

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