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

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: por-p^hy-RO-mo-nas lo-we-A-na, 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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

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+". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of the species itself.
  • 🧍 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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