Name: Kingella denitrificans Snell and Lapage 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: de.ni.tri’fi.cans. N.L. part. adj. denitrificans, denitrifying

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 33394; CCUG 6516; CCUG 9125; CIP 103473; DSM 10202; NCTC 10995

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: M22516 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Snell JJS, Lapage SP. Transfer of some saccharolytic Moraxella species to Kingella Henriksen and Bøvre 1976, with descriptions of Kingella indologenes sp. nov. and Kingella denitrificans sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1976; 26:451-458.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Emendations:
  • Hollis et al. 1983 Hollis DG, Weaver RE, Riley PS. Emended description of Kingella denitrificans (Snell and Lapage 1976): correction of the maltose reaction. J Clin Microbiol 1983; 18:1174-1176.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 As of 2020-05-28 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04170 (N = 16).
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 37 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established 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: Kingella Henriksen and Bøvre 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Snell JJS, Lapage SP. Transfer of some saccharolytic Moraxella species to Kingella Henriksen and Bøvre 1976, with descriptions of Kingella indologenes sp. nov. and Kingella denitrificans sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1976; 26:451-458.

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Record number: 777106