Brucella melitensis (Hughes, 1893) Meyer & Shaw, 1920 Dataset Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-Date (PNU) Rank SPECIES Published in Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 30::270 Classification genus Brucella species Brucella melitensis Name Synonyms Brucella abortus (Schmidt, 1901) Meyer & Shaw, 1920 Brucella canis Carmichael & Bruner, 1968 Brucella neotomae Stoenner & Lackman, 1957 Brucella ovis Buddle, 1956 Brucella suis Huddleson, 1929 Homonyms Brucella melitensis (Hughes, 1893) Meyer & Shaw, 1920