Name: Alistipes putredinis (Weinberg et al. 1937) Rautio et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus putredinis" Weinberg et al. 1937

Etymology: pu.tre.di.nis. L. fem. n. putredo (gen. putredinis), rottenness, putridity; L. gen. fem. n. putredinis, of putridity

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 29800; CCUG 45780; CIP 104286; JCM 16772

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB554232 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Rautio M, Eerola E, Vaisanen-Tunkelrott ML, Molitoris D, Lawson P, Collins MD, Jousimies-Somer H. Reclassification of Bacteroides putredinis (Weinberg et al., 1937) in a new genus Alistipes gen. nov., as Alistipes putredinis comb. nov., and description of Alistipes finegoldii sp. nov., from human sources. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:182-188.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 94. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1701-1702.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Bacteroides putredinis (Weinberg et al. 1937) Kelly 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Bacillus putredinis" Weinberg et al. 1937	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Alistipes Rautio et al. 2003. Publication: Rautio M, Eerola E, Vaisanen-Tunkelrott ML, Molitoris D, Lawson P, Collins MD, Jousimies-Somer H. Reclassification of Bacteroides putredinis (Weinberg et al., 1937) in a new genus Alistipes gen. nov., as Alistipes putredinis comb. nov., and description of Alistipes finegoldii sp. nov., from human sources. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:182-188.
  • According to Bartlett et al. (2022), no evidence of human infection was found for this species. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.
  • 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 strains CIP 104286 and CCUG 45780 have been provided on request for validation. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 94. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1701-1702.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

Parent taxon: Alistipes Rautio et al. 2003

Assigned by: Rautio M, Eerola E, Vaisanen-Tunkelrott ML, Molitoris D, Lawson P, Collins MD, Jousimies-Somer H. Reclassification of Bacteroides putredinis (Weinberg et al., 1937) in a new genus Alistipes gen. nov., as Alistipes putredinis comb. nov., and description of Alistipes finegoldii sp. nov., from human sources. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:182-188.

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