Name: Finegoldia dalianensis Li et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: da.li.a.nen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. dalianensis, pertaining to Dalian city, located in Liaoning province, China, where the bacterium was isolated

Pronunciation, gender: da-li-a-NEN-sis, feminine

Type strain: GDMCC 1.4375; KCTC 25838; LY 240594

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

Effective publication: Li Y, Wang Y, Xiao D, Wang J, Jin D. The identification of Finegoldia dalianensis sp. nov., isolated from the pus of the patient with skin abscess and genomic analysis of the strains belonging to Finegoldia genus. Anaerobe 2024; 0:102913.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 223. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6699.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.30925 (N = 4).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2025-06-03.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of the species itself.

Parent taxon: Finegoldia Murdoch and Shah 2000

Assigned by: Li Y, Wang Y, Xiao D, Wang J, Jin D. The identification of Finegoldia dalianensis sp. nov., isolated from the pus of the patient with skin abscess and genomic analysis of the strains belonging to Finegoldia genus. Anaerobe 2024; 0:102913.

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Record number: 65750