Name: Delftia lacustris Jørgensen et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la.cus’tris. N.L. masc./fem. adj. lacustris, growing by lakes or ponds; L. gen. masc. n. lacus, a lake

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 332; DSM 21246; LMG 24775

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU888308 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Jorgensen NO, Brandt KK, Nybroe O, Hansen M. Delftia lacustris sp. nov., a peptidoglycan-degrading bacterium from fresh water, and emended description of Delftia tsuruhatensis as a peptidoglycan-degrading bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2195-2199.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2921-2922.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 21 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.

Parent taxon: Delftia Wen et al. 1999

Assigned by: Jorgensen NO, Brandt KK, Nybroe O, Hansen M. Delftia lacustris sp. nov., a peptidoglycan-degrading bacterium from fresh water, and emended description of Delftia tsuruhatensis as a peptidoglycan-degrading bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2195-2199.

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Record number: 788102