Name: Porphyromonas bennonis Summanen et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ben.no’nis. N.L. gen. masc. n. bennonis, of Benno, in honour of the contemporary Japanese microbiologist Yoshimi Benno, who has contributed significantly to our knowledge of anaerobic bacteria

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1629; CCUG 55979; DSM 23058; JCM 16335; WAL 1926C

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB588020 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Summanen PH, Lawson PA, Finegold SM. Porphyromonas bennonis sp. nov., isolated from human clinical specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1727-1732.

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: 2

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established 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: Porphyromonas Shah and Collins 1988

Assigned by: Summanen PH, Lawson PA, Finegold SM. Porphyromonas bennonis sp. nov., isolated from human clinical specimens. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1727-1732.

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/porphyromonas-bennonisCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 788006