Name: Moraxella ovis (Lindqvist 1960) Henriksen and Bøvre 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Neisseria ovis Lindqvist 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: o’vis. L. gen. fem. n. ovis, of the sheep

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 199/55; ATCC 33078; CCUG 354; DSM 18075; LMG 8381; NCTC 11227

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF005186 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Henriksen SD, Bovre K. The taxonomy of the genera Moraxella and Neisseria. J Gen Microbiol 1968; 51:387-392.

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
    Neisseria ovis Lindqvist 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.11257 (N = 6).
  • 😷 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 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 = "t".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 25 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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: Henriksen SD, Bovre K. The taxonomy of the genera Moraxella and Neisseria. J Gen Microbiol 1968; 51:387-392.

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