Name: Gordonibacter urolithinfaciens Selma et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: u.ro.li’thin.fa’ci.ens. N.L. neut. n. urolithinum, urolithin; L. v. facio, to produce; N.L. part. adj. urolithinfaciens, urolithin-producing (should rather be urolithinifaciens)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 64261; CEBAS 1/15P; DSM 27213

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MK544835 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Selma MV, Tomas-Barberan FA, Beltran D, Garcia-Villalba R, Espin JC. Gordonibacter urolithinfaciens sp. nov., a urolithin-producing bacterium isolated from the human gut. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2346-2352.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3333-3334.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Gordonibacter faecihominis Jin et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to Danylec et al. (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Gordonibacter faecihominis Jin et al. 2015. Publication: Danylec N, Stoll DA, Huch M. Gordonibacter faecihominis is a later heterotypic synonym of Gordonibacter urolithinfaciens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2527-2532.
  • 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3315-3317.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 12 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Gordonibacter Würdemann et al. 2009

Assigned by: Selma MV, Tomas-Barberan FA, Beltran D, Garcia-Villalba R, Espin JC. Gordonibacter urolithinfaciens sp. nov., a urolithin-producing bacterium isolated from the human gut. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2346-2352.

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Record number: 791964