Name: Haematospirillum jordaniae Humrighouse et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: jor.da’ni.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. jordaniae, named in honour of the late Jean Jordan

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCUG 66838; DSM 28903; DSMT 28903; H5569

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM083603 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Humrighouse BW, Emery BD, Kelly AJ, Metcalfe MG, Mbizo J, McQuiston JR. Erratum to: Haematospirillum jordaniae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human blood samples. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:895-896.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 171. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3761-3764.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Haematospirillum Humrighouse et al. 2016. Publication: Humrighouse BW, Emery BD, Kelly AJ, Metcalfe MG, Mbizo J, McQuiston JR. Erratum to: Haematospirillum jordaniae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human blood samples. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:895-896.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 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: Haematospirillum Humrighouse et al. 2016

Assigned by: Humrighouse BW, Emery BD, Kelly AJ, Metcalfe MG, Mbizo J, McQuiston JR. Erratum to: Haematospirillum jordaniae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human blood samples. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:895-896.

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Record number: 793779