Name: Paenalcaligenes hominis Kämpfer et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ho’mi.nis. L. gen. masc. n. hominis, of a man, of a human being, named because the type and only known strain is of human origin

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCM 7698; CCUG 53761; CCUG 53761 A; DSM 26613

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MT760169 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Falsen E, Langer S, Lodders N, Busse HJ. Paenalcaligenes hominis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Alcaligenaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1537-1542.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2261-2262.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Paenalcaligenes Kämpfer et al. 2010. Publication: Kampfer P, Falsen E, Langer S, Lodders N, Busse HJ. Paenalcaligenes hominis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Alcaligenaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1537-1542.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative 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: Paenalcaligenes Kämpfer et al. 2010

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Falsen E, Langer S, Lodders N, Busse HJ. Paenalcaligenes hominis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Alcaligenaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1537-1542.

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Record number: 788647