Name: Empedobacter falsenii (Kämpfer et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Wautersiella falsenii Kämpfer et al. 2006

Etymology: fal.sen’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. falsenii, of Falsen, to honour the contemporary Norwegian microbiologist, Enevold Falsen, for his lifelong interest in bacterial taxonomy and for his systematic characterization of bacteria at the CCUG, Göteborg, Sweden

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 51536; CIP 108861; NF 993

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AM084341 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang RG, Tan X, Liang Y, Meng TY, Liang HZ, Lv J. Description of Chishuiella changwenlii gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from freshwater, and transfer of Wautersiella falsenii to the genus Empedobacter as Empedobacter falsenii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2723-2728.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3607-3609.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Wautersiella falsenii Kämpfer et al. 2006	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 9 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative 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: Empedobacter (ex Prévot 1961) Vandamme et al. 1994

Assigned by: Zhang RG, Tan X, Liang Y, Meng TY, Liang HZ, Lv J. Description of Chishuiella changwenlii gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from freshwater, and transfer of Wautersiella falsenii to the genus Empedobacter as Empedobacter falsenii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2723-2728.

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Record number: 792073