Name: Alistipes inops Shkoporov et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in’ops. L. masc. adj. inops, helpless, destitute, indigent, poor, referring to its small genome size, lack of fermentation potential and scanty growth

Pronunciation, gender: IN-ops, masculine

Type strain: 627; DSM 28863; VKM B-2859

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ572413 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Shkoporov AN, Chaplin AV, Khokhlova EV, Shcherbakova VA, Motuzova OV, Bozhenko VK, Kafarskaia LI, Efimov BA. Alistipes inops sp. nov. and Coprobacter secundus sp. nov., isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4580-4588. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1600-1602.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 9 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 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.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). 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: Alistipes Rautio et al. 2003

Assigned by: Shkoporov AN, Chaplin AV, Khokhlova EV, Shcherbakova VA, Motuzova OV, Bozhenko VK, Kafarskaia LI, Efimov BA. Alistipes inops sp. nov. and Coprobacter secundus sp. nov., isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4580-4588. 🇷🇺

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