Name: Cutibacterium namnetense (Aubin et al. 2016) Nouioui et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Propionibacterium namnetense Aubin et al. 2016

Etymology: nam.ne.ten’se. L. neut. adj. namnetense, of Namnetum, the Latin name of Nantes

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … nam-ne-TEN-se, neuter

Type strain: CCUG 66358; DSM 29427; NTS 31307302

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM507346 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 184. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3379-3393.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Propionibacterium namnetense Aubin et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Dekio et al. 2020 Dekio I, Sakamoto M, Suzuki T, Yuki M, Kinoshita S, Murakami Y, Ohkuma M. Cutibacterium modestum sp. nov., isolated from meibum of human meibomian glands, and emended descriptions of Cutibacterium granulosum and Cutibacterium namnetense. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2457-2462. 🇯🇵 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.

• Notes:
  • 🎓 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 pathogenicity of the species itself.

Parent taxon: Cutibacterium Scholz and Kilian 2016

Assigned by: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 798776