Name: Alistipes shahii Song et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. shahii, of Shah, to honour Haroun N. Shah, for his contribution to anaerobic bacteriology

Type strains: ATCC BAA-1179; CCUG 48947; DSM 19121; JCM 16773; WAL 8301

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB554233

Valid publication: Song Y, Kononen E, Rautio M, Liu C, Bryk A, Eerola E, Finegold SM. Alistipes onderdonkii sp. nov. and Alistipes shahii sp. nov., of human origin. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1985-1990.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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:
  • The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.
  • The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".

Parent taxon: Alistipes Rautio et al. 2003

Assigned by: Song Y, Kononen E, Rautio M, Liu C, Bryk A, Eerola E, Finegold SM. Alistipes onderdonkii sp. nov. and Alistipes shahii sp. nov., of human origin. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1985-1990.

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