Name: Porphyromonas loveana Bird et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lo.ve.a’na. N.L. fem. adj. loveana, in honour of the late Australian veterinary microbiologist, Associate Professor Daria N. Love, for her contribution to the field of veterinary microbiology, in particular to our knowledge of pigmented anaerobic Gram-negative rods isolated from animals

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 28520; MRK101; NCTC 13658; UQD 444

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU012300 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bird PS, Trott DJ, Mikkelsen D, Milinovich GJ, Hillman KM, Burrell PC, Blackall LL. Porphyromonas loveana sp. nov., isolated from the oral cavity of Australian marsupials. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3771-3778.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. 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.

Parent taxon: Porphyromonas Shah and Collins 1988

Assigned by: Bird PS, Trott DJ, Mikkelsen D, Milinovich GJ, Hillman KM, Burrell PC, Blackall LL. Porphyromonas loveana sp. nov., isolated from the oral cavity of Australian marsupials. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3771-3778.

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