Name: Erysipelothrix inopinata Verbarg et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in.o.pi.na’ta. L. fem. adj. inopinata, unexpected

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CIP 107935; DSM 15511; MF-EP02

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ550617 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Verbarg S, Rheims H, Emus S, Fruhling A, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Schumann P. Erysipelothrix inopinata sp. nov., isolated in the course of sterile filtration of vegetable peptone broth, and description of Erysipelotrichaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:221-225.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:633-634.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Emendations:
  • Tegtmeier et al. 2016 Tegtmeier D, Riese C, Geissinger O, Radek R, Brune A. Breznakia blatticola gen. nov. sp. nov. and Breznakia pachnodae sp. nov., two fermenting bacteria isolated from insect guts, and emended description of the family Erysipelotrichaceae. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:319-329. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 25. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:7-8.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Erysipelothrix Rosenbach 1909 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Verbarg S, Rheims H, Emus S, Fruhling A, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Schumann P. Erysipelothrix inopinata sp. nov., isolated in the course of sterile filtration of vegetable peptone broth, and description of Erysipelotrichaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:221-225.

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Record number: 776037