Name: Parabacteroides goldsteinii (Song et al. 2006) Sakamoto and Benno 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacteroides goldsteinii Song et al. 2006

Etymology: gold.stein’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. goldsteinii, of Ellie J. C. Goldstein, in honor of the outstanding infectious disease clinician who has done a lot of work with anaerobes

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1180; CCUG 48944; DSM 19448; JCM 13446; WAL 12034

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU136697 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sakamoto M, Benno Y. Reclassification of Bacteroides distasonis, Bacteroides goldsteinii and Bacteroides merdae as Parabacteroides distasonis gen. nov., comb. nov., Parabacteroides goldsteinii comb. nov. and Parabacteroides merdae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1599-1605.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2251-2252.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Bacteroides goldsteinii Song et al. 2006	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Parabacteroides Sakamoto and Benno 2006

Assigned by: Sakamoto M, Benno Y. Reclassification of Bacteroides distasonis, Bacteroides goldsteinii and Bacteroides merdae as Parabacteroides distasonis gen. nov., comb. nov., Parabacteroides goldsteinii comb. nov. and Parabacteroides merdae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1599-1605.

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