Name: Phocaeicola salanitronis (Lan et al. 2006) García-López et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacteroides salanitronis Lan et al. 2006

Etymology: sa.la.ni.tro’nis. N.L. gen. masc. n. salanitronis, of Salanitro, named after Joseph P. Salanitro, an American microbiologist, who has contributed much to our knowledge of intestinal bacteriology in chicken and anaerobic bacteriology in general

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BL78; DSM 18170; JCM 13657

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB253731 Analyse FASTA

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 193. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2960-2966.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

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

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02677 (N = 1).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Mukherjee S, Seshadri R, Varghese NJ, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Coates RC, Hadjithomas M, Pavlopoulos GA, Paez-Espino D, et al. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol 2017; 35:676-683.

Parent taxon: Phocaeicola Al Masalma et al. 2009

Assigned by: 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.

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