Name: Odoribacter laneus Nagai et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: la.ne.us. L. masc. adj. laneus, woollen, soft as wool, referring to the growth appearance in liquid medium and to the cellular characteristics of the resulting fluffy precipitate after centrifugation

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 22474; JCM 16069; YIT 12061

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB547648 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nagai F, Morotomi M, Watanabe Y, Sakon H, Tanaka R. Alistipes indistinctus sp. nov. and Odoribacter laneus sp. nov., common members of the human intestinal microbiota isolated from faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1296-1302.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1987-1988.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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: Odoribacter Hardham et al. 2008

Assigned by: Nagai F, Morotomi M, Watanabe Y, Sakon H, Tanaka R. Alistipes indistinctus sp. nov. and Odoribacter laneus sp. nov., common members of the human intestinal microbiota isolated from faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1296-1302.

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