Genus Alloscardovia
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 4
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Alloscardovia Huys et al. 2007, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Alloscardovia omnicolens Huys et al. 2007.
Etymology: Gr. adj. allos, different; N.L. fem. n. Scardovia, a bacterial generic name; N.L. fem. n. Alloscardovia, organism related to, but different from, Scardovia and related genera.
Valid publication: HUYS (G.), VANCANNEYT (M.), D'HAENE (K.), FALSEN (E.), WAUTERS (G.) and VANDAMME (P.): Alloscardovia omnicolens gen. nov., sp. nov., from human clinical samples. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 1442-1446.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Alloscardovia Huys et al. 2007 emend. Killer et al. 2013.
Reference: KILLER, J., ROČKOVÁ, Š., VLKOVÁ, E., RADA, V., HAVLÍK, J., KOPEČNÝ, J., BUNEŠOVÁ, V., BENADA, O., KOFROŇOVÁ, O., PECHAR, R. and PROFOUSOVÁ, I. 2013. Alloscardovia macacae sp. nov., isolated from the milk of a macaque (Macaca mulatta), emended description of the genus Alloscardovia and proposal of Alloscardovia criceti comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 4439-4446.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Alloscardovia criceti Killer et al. 2013, comb. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) OMB105=JCM 13493=DSM 17774.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB241105.
Basonym: ¤ Metascardovia criceti Okamoto et al. 2007
Etymology: N.L. gen. n. criceti, of Cricetus (the zoological genus name of the hamster), of a hamster.
Source: Animal.
Valid publication: KILLER, J., ROČKOVÁ, Š., VLKOVÁ, E., RADA, V., HAVLÍK, J., KOPEČNÝ, J., BUNEŠOVÁ, V., BENADA, O., KOFROŇOVÁ, O., PECHAR, R. and PROFOUSOVÁ, I. 2013. Alloscardovia macacae sp. nov., isolated from the milk of a macaque (Macaca mulatta), emended description of the genus Alloscardovia and proposal of Alloscardovia criceti comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 4439-4446.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Alloscardovia macacae Killer et al. 2013, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) M8=DSM 24762=CCM 7944.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: JQ363617.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Macaca, generic name of macaques; N.L. gen. fem. n., macacae, of Macaca, isolated from Macaca mulatta.
Source: Animal.
Valid publication: KILLER, J., ROČKOVÁ, Š., VLKOVÁ, E., RADA, V., HAVLÍK, J., KOPEČNÝ, J., BUNEŠOVÁ, V., BENADA, O., KOFROŇOVÁ, O., PECHAR, R. and PROFOUSOVÁ, I. 2013. Alloscardovia macacae sp. nov., isolated from the milk of a macaque (Macaca mulatta), emended description of the genus Alloscardovia and proposal of Alloscardovia criceti comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 4439-4446.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Alloscardovia omnicolens Huys et al. 2007, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) CCUG 31649 = LMG 23792.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AM419460.
Etymology: L. adj. omnis, every; L. v. colere, to dwell; L. part. adj. colens, dwelling; N.L. part. adj. omnicolens, dwelling everywhere in the human body.
Valid publication: HUYS (G.), VANCANNEYT (M.), D'HAENE (K.), FALSEN (E.), WAUTERS (G.) and VANDAMME (P.): Alloscardovia omnicolens gen. nov., sp. nov., from human clinical samples. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 1442-1446.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Alloscardovia venturai Sechovcova et al. 2017, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) MOZIV/2=DSM 100237=CCM 8604=LMG 28781.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KT343144.
Etymology: N.L. gen. n. venturai, of Ventura, named after Professor Marco Ventura, in recognition of his genetic research on bifidobacteria.
Source: Animal.
Valid publication: SECHOVCOVA, H., KILLER, J., PECHAR, R., GEIGEROVA, M., SVEJSTIL, R., SALMONOVA, H., MEKADIM, C., RADA, V., VLKOVA, E., KOFRONOVA, O. and BENADA, O. 2017. Alloscardovia venturai sp. nov., a fructose 6-phosphate phosphoketolase-positive species isolated from the oral cavity of a guinea-pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 2842-2847.
Original article in IJSEM Online