Name: Gabonibacter massiliensis Mourembou et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mas.si.li.en’sis. L. masc./fem. adj. massiliensis, of Massilia, the Latin name of Marseille, where strain GM7T was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CSUR P2336; DSM 101039; GM7

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LN881588 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mourembou G, Rathored J, Lekana-Douki JB, Ndjoyi-Mbiguino A, Khelaifia S, Robert C, Armstrong N, Raoult D, Fournier PE. Description of Gabonibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a New Member of the Family Porphyromonadaceae Isolated from the Human Gut Microbiota. Curr Microbiol 2016; 73:867-877.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 173. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1-3.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Gabonibacter Mourembou et al. 2017. Publication: Mourembou G, Rathored J, Lekana-Douki JB, Ndjoyi-Mbiguino A, Khelaifia S, Robert C, Armstrong N, Raoult D, Fournier PE. Description of Gabonibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a New Member of the Family Porphyromonadaceae Isolated from the Human Gut Microbiota. Curr Microbiol 2016; 73:867-877.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Gabonibacter Mourembou et al. 2017

Assigned by: Mourembou G, Rathored J, Lekana-Douki JB, Ndjoyi-Mbiguino A, Khelaifia S, Robert C, Armstrong N, Raoult D, Fournier PE. Description of Gabonibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a New Member of the Family Porphyromonadaceae Isolated from the Human Gut Microbiota. Curr Microbiol 2016; 73:867-877.

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