Species Prevotella maculosa

Name: Prevotella maculosa Downes et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.cu.lo’sa. L. fem. adj. maculosa, speckled, referring to the internal appearance of colonies of the organism growing on agar media

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 54766; DSM 19339; JCM 15638; W1609

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF534314 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Downes J, Sutcliffe IC, Booth V, Wade WG. Prevotella maculosa sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2936-2939.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Segatella maculosa (Downes et al. 2007) Hitch et al. 2023

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Segatella maculosa (Downes et al. 2007) Hitch et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ❗ Prevotella maculosa is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Prevotella.
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
- 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.
- 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Prevotella Shah and Collins 1990

Assigned by: Downes J, Sutcliffe IC, Booth V, Wade WG. Prevotella maculosa sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2936-2939.

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