Name: Parasutterella excrementihominis Nagai et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ex.cre.men.ti.ho.mi.nis. L. neut. n. excrementum, excrement; L. masc. n. homo (gen. hominis), human being, man; N.L. gen. masc. n. excrementihominis, of faeces of a human

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 21040; JCM 15078; YIT 11859

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB370250 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nagai F, Morotomi M, Sakon H, Tanaka R. Parasutterella excrementihominis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Alcaligenaceae isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1793-1797.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2381-2382.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Parasutterella Nagai et al. 2009. Publication: Nagai F, Morotomi M, Sakon H, Tanaka R. Parasutterella excrementihominis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Alcaligenaceae isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1793-1797.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 19 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Parasutterella Nagai et al. 2009

Assigned by: Nagai F, Morotomi M, Sakon H, Tanaka R. Parasutterella excrementihominis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Alcaligenaceae isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1793-1797.

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Record number: 788005