Name: Dysgonomonas mossii Lawson et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: moss’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. mossii, of Moss, to honour Claude Wayne Moss, a contemporary American microbiologist, in recognition of his contributions to microbial taxonomy

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 43457; CDC F9489; CIP 107079; DSM 22836; JCM 16699

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB548676 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Lawson PA, Falsen E, Inganas E, Weyant RS, Collins MD. Dysgonomonas mossii sp. nov., from human sources. Syst Appl Microbiol 2002; 25:194-197.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 88. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1915-1916.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.13448 (N = 4).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 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: Dysgonomonas Hofstad et al. 2000

Assigned by: Lawson PA, Falsen E, Inganas E, Weyant RS, Collins MD. Dysgonomonas mossii sp. nov., from human sources. Syst Appl Microbiol 2002; 25:194-197.

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