Name:Acinetobacterportensis Carvalheira et al. 2020
Category: Species
Proposed as: sp. nov.
Etymology:por.ten’sis.N.L. masc. adj.portensis, pertaining to Porto, a city of Portugal where the first four strains of this species were isolated [probably better: portonensis]
Valid publication:
Carvalheira A, Gonzales-Siles L, Salva-Serra F, Lindgren A, Svensson-Stadler L, Thorell K, Pineiro-Iglesias B, Karlsson R, Silva J, Teixeira P, et al.Acinetobacter portensis sp. nov. and Acinetobacter guerrae sp. nov., isolated from raw meat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4544-4554. 🇵🇹
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5602-5608.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Notes:
⏰ According to Nemec (2022), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Acinetobacterpullorum Elnar et al. 2026.Publication:
Nemec A. Acinetobacter. In: Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Wiley, Unknown City, 2022, p. 1-78. 🇨🇿
🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.