Name: Helcobacillus massiliensis Renvoise et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

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

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 6401990; CCUG 53859; CIP 109418; CSUR P17; DSM 23040

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU477050 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Renvoise A, Aldrovandi N, Raoult D, Roux V. Helcobacillus massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the family Dermabacteraceae isolated from a patient with a cutaneous discharge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2346-2351.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2921-2922.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Helcobacillus Renvoise et al. 2009. Publication: Renvoise A, Aldrovandi N, Raoult D, Roux V. Helcobacillus massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the family Dermabacteraceae isolated from a patient with a cutaneous discharge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2346-2351.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 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: Helcobacillus Renvoise et al. 2009

Assigned by: Renvoise A, Aldrovandi N, Raoult D, Roux V. Helcobacillus massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the family Dermabacteraceae isolated from a patient with a cutaneous discharge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2346-2351.

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