Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse, 1886) Lehmann & Neumann, 1896 Dataset Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-Date (PNU) Rank SPECIES Published in Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 30::285 Classification genus Corynebacterium species Corynebacterium diphtheriae Name Homonyms Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Kruse, 1886) Lehmann & Neumann, 1896