Name: Parabacteroides chinchillae Kitahara et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: chin.chil’lae. N.L. fem. n. Chinchilla, the zoological genus name of the chinchilla; N.L. gen. fem. n. chinchillae, of a chinchilla

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 62154; DSM 29073; JCM 17104; ST166

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB574482 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kitahara M, Sakamoto M, Tsuchida S, Kawasumi K, Amao H, Benno Y, Ohkuma M. Parabacteroides chinchillae sp. nov., isolated from chinchilla (Chincilla lanigera) faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3470-3474.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4371-4373.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Parabacteroides Sakamoto and Benno 2006

Assigned by: Kitahara M, Sakamoto M, Tsuchida S, Kawasumi K, Amao H, Benno Y, Ohkuma M. Parabacteroides chinchillae sp. nov., isolated from chinchilla (Chincilla lanigera) faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3470-3474.

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Record number: 791117