Name: Capnocytophaga leadbetteri Frandsen et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lead.bet’te.ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. leadbetteri, of Leadbetter, in honour of E. R. Leadbetter, the American microbiologist who (as first author) described and proposed the genus Capnocytophaga

Gender: feminine

Type strain: AHN 8855; CCUG 51857; NCTC 13375

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ009623 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Frandsen EV, Poulsen K, Kononen E, Kilian M. Diversity of Capnocytophaga species in children and description of Capnocytophaga leadbetteri sp. nov. and Capnocytophaga genospecies AHN8471. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:324-336.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1058-1059.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 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.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Frandsen et al. 2008, the authors also propose the description of Capnocytophaga genomospecies AHN8471 (reference strain AHN8471 = CCUG 51856 = NCTC 13374; GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number: DQ009622). This genomospecies is not phenotypically distinguishable from Capnocytophaga ochracea (Prévot et al. 1956) Leadbetter et al. 1982 and Capnocytophaga sputigena Leadbetter et al. 1982. Publication: Frandsen EV, Poulsen K, Kononen E, Kilian M. Diversity of Capnocytophaga species in children and description of Capnocytophaga leadbetteri sp. nov. and Capnocytophaga genospecies AHN8471. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:324-336.

Parent taxon: Capnocytophaga Leadbetter et al. 1982

Assigned by: Frandsen EV, Poulsen K, Kononen E, Kilian M. Diversity of Capnocytophaga species in children and description of Capnocytophaga leadbetteri sp. nov. and Capnocytophaga genospecies AHN8471. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:324-336.

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