Name: Mucinivorans hirudinis Nelson et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hi.ru’di.nis. L. gen. fem. n. hirudinis, of the leech

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2553; DSM 27344; M3

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HG934468 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nelson MC, Bomar L, Maltz M, Graf J. Mucinivorans hirudinis gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, mucin-degrading bacterium isolated from the digestive tract of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:990-995.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1701-1702.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Mucinivorans Nelson et al. 2015. Publication: Nelson MC, Bomar L, Maltz M, Graf J. Mucinivorans hirudinis gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, mucin-degrading bacterium isolated from the digestive tract of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:990-995.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Mucinivorans Nelson et al. 2015

Assigned by: Nelson MC, Bomar L, Maltz M, Graf J. Mucinivorans hirudinis gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, mucin-degrading bacterium isolated from the digestive tract of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:990-995.

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