Name: Coprobacter secundus Shkoporov et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: se.cun’dus. L. masc. adj. secundus, second, next, referring to the fact that this is the second species to be described within the genus Coprobacter

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 177; DSM 28864; JCM 33897; VKM B-2857

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16S rRNA gene: KJ572412 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

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Gabonia massiliensis" Mourembou et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to Sakamoto et al. (2021), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of "Gabonia massiliensis" Mourembou et al. 2016. Publication: Sakamoto M, Ikeyama N, Toyoda A, Murakami T, Mori H, Morohoshi S, Kunihiro T, Iino T, Ohkuma M. Coprobacter secundus subsp. similis subsp. nov. and Solibaculum mannosilyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human feces. Microbiol Immunol 2021; 65:245-256.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Coprobacter secundus subsp. secundus (Shkoporov et al. 2015) Sakamoto et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Coprobacter secundus subsp. similis Sakamoto et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Coprobacter Shkoporov et al. 2013

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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