Genus Holdemania
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 2
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).
Holdemania Willems et al. 1997, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Holdemania filiformis Willems et al. 1997.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Holdemania, named in honor of Lillian V. Holdeman Moore, a contemporary American microbiologist, for her outstanding contribution to anaerobic bacteriology.
Valid publication: WILLEMS (A.), MOORE (W.E.C.), WEISS (N.) and COLLINS (M.D.): Phenotypic and phylogenetic characterization of some Eubacterium-like isolates containing a novel type B wall murein from human feces: description of Holdemania filiformis gen. nov., sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 1201-1204.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Holdemania filiformis Willems et al. 1997, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) J1-31B-1 = ATCC 51649= DSM 12042.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: Y11466.
Etymology: L. n. filum, thread; L. adj. suffix -formis -is -e, -like, in the shape of; N.L. fem. adj. filiformis, filiform, thread-shaped.
Valid publication: WILLEMS (A.), MOORE (W.E.C.), WEISS (N.) and COLLINS (M.D.): Phenotypic and phylogenetic characterization of some Eubacterium-like isolates containing a novel type B wall murein from human feces: description of Holdemania filiformis gen. nov., sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 1201-1204.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: Holdemania filiformis Willems et al. 1997 was previously known as Eubacterium-like group S14.
Holdemania massiliensis Mishra et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) AP2=CSUR P195=DSM 26143.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: JX101683.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: CALK00000000.
Etymology: L. fem. adj. massiliensis, of Massilia, the Roman name of Marseille, France, where the type strain was isolated.
Source: Clinical.
Valid publication: VALIDATION LIST no. 170. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66 (2016), 2463-2466.
Validation List Online
Effective publication: MISHRA, A. K., LAGIER, J.-C., PFLEIDERER, A., NGUYEN, T. T., CAPUTO, A., RAOULT, D., FOURNIER, P.-E. 2013. Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Holdemania massiliensis sp. nov. Stand. Genomic Sci. 9, 395-409.
Effective publication Online