Name: Moraxella bovis (Hauduroy et al. 1937) Murray 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Haemophilus bovis" Hauduroy et al. 1937

Etymology: bo’vis. L. masc./fem. n. bos (gen. bovis), an ox, a bull, a cow; L. gen. masc./fem. n. bovis, of cattle

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 10900; CCUG 2133; CIP 70.40; DSM 6328; JCM 20472; LMG 986; NCTC 11013

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF005182 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Murray EGD. Genus II. Moraxella Lwoff. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 590-592.

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Haemophilus bovis" Hauduroy et al. 1937	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Emendations:
  • Li et al. 2022 Li F, Zhu P, Li Z, Zhao W, Gao H, Hong Q, Song J, Yang S. Moraxella nasovis sp. nov., isolated from a sheep with respiratory disease. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5511. Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5681.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 2". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - 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, note = "ht".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 372 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: Moraxella Lwoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Murray EGD. Genus II. Moraxella Lwoff. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 590-592.

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