Name: Lactococcus petauri Goodman et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pe.tau’ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. petauri, of Petaurus pertaining to the sugar glider Petaurus breviceps

Pronunciation, gender: pe-TA͡U-ri, masculine

Type strain: 159469; DSM 104842; LMG 30040

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KY548925 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Goodman LB, Lawton MR, Franklin-Guild RJ, Anderson RR, Schaan L, Thachil AJ, Wiedmann M, Miller CB, Alcaine SD, Kovac J. Lactococcus petauri sp. nov., isolated from an abscess of a sugar glider. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4397-4404. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:471-473.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t+". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 25 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.

Parent taxon: Lactococcus Schleifer et al. 1986

Assigned by: Goodman LB, Lawton MR, Franklin-Guild RJ, Anderson RR, Schaan L, Thachil AJ, Wiedmann M, Miller CB, Alcaine SD, Kovac J. Lactococcus petauri sp. nov., isolated from an abscess of a sugar glider. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4397-4404. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 796200