TABLE 3.
Heterotypic synonyms found here that have already been detected by other authors.
| Species 1 | Species 2 | Basis | Proposition | References |
| Agrobacterium tumefaciens | Agrobacterium radiobacter | Numerical taxonomic analysis showing that 24 strains of A. radiobacter and A. tumefaciens composed a cluster | A. tumefaciens is a later heterotypic synonym | Holmes and Roberts (1981) |
| Mabikibacter ruber | Notoacmeibacter marinus | dDDH (79.8%) and OrthoANIu (97.8%) | M. ruber is a later heterotypic synonym | Huang and Lai (2020) |
| Ochrobactrum lupini | Ochrobactrum anthropi | ANIb (97.55%), ANIm (98.25%), gANI (97.99%), OrthoANI (97.94%) and dDDH (83.9%) | O. lupini is a later heterotypic synonym | Volpiano et al. (2019) |
| Brucella ceti | Brucella melitensis | dDDH (97.8%) | B. ceti is a later heterotypic synonym | Hördt et al. (2020) |
| Brucella inopinata | Brucella melitensis | dDDH (81.2%) | B. inopinata is a later heterotypic synonym | |
| Brucella microti | Brucella melitensis | dDDH (99.1%) | B. microti is a later heterotypic synonym | |
| Brucella vulpis | Brucella melitensis | dDDH (80.5%) | B. vulpis is a later heterotypic synonym | |
| Methylobacterium phyllosphaerae | Methylobacterium oryzae | dDDH (90.3%) | M. phyllosphaerae is a later heterotypic synonym | |
| Methylobacterium radiotolerans | Methylobacterium organophilum | dDDH (92.2%) | M. organophilum is a later heterotypic synonym | |
| Rhizobium marinum | Pseudorhizobium pelagicum | dDDH (76.3%) | New subspecies of R. marinum from P. pelagicum (R. marinum subsp. pelagicum) | |
| Rhizobium mongolense | Rhizobium loessense | dDDH (70.0%) | New subspecies of R. mongolense from R. loessense (R. mongolense subsp. loessense) |