Domain : Bacteria
Phylum : Actinobacteria
Class : Actinobacteria
Order : Corynebacteriales
Family : Corynebacteriaceae
Genus : Corynebacterium ( Gram-positive and aerobic )
Corynebacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896, genus. (Type genus of the suborder ¤Corynebacterineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997; type genus of the family ¤Corynebacteriaceae Lehmann and Neumann 1907 [Approved Lists 1980]).
Type species: Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse 1886) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: Gr. n. korune, a club; L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod, and in biology a bacterium (so called because the first ones observed were rod-shaped); N.L. neut. n. Corynebacterium, a club bacterium.
Approved Lists reference: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online – Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition).
Original publication: LEHMANN (K.B.) and NEUMANN (R.): Atlas und Grundriss der Bakteriologie und Lehrbuch der speciellen bakteriologischen Diagnostik, 1st ed., J.F. Lehmann, München, 1896.
Refrence : http://www.bacterio.net/