Name: Dysgonomonas macrotermitis Yang et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.cro.ter’mi.tis. N.L. gen. masc. n. macrotermitis, of the termite Macrothermes, where the organism was first isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 27370; Dys-CH1; JCM 19375

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HG315620 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yang YJ, Zhang N, Ji SQ, Lan X, Zhang KD, Shen YL, Li FL, Ni JF. Dysgonomonas macrotermitis sp. nov., isolated from the hindgut of a fungus-growing termite. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2956-2961.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3923-3925.

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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Dysgonomonas Hofstad et al. 2000

Assigned by: Yang YJ, Zhang N, Ji SQ, Lan X, Zhang KD, Shen YL, Li FL, Ni JF. Dysgonomonas macrotermitis sp. nov., isolated from the hindgut of a fungus-growing termite. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2956-2961.

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